The artifact that I have chosen from the Wellcome Digital Library on Mental Health is an annual report from the Sussex County Lunatic Asylum (Haywards Health, England) from the year 1863. This document contained a list of the committee members as well as visitors to the asylum, the medical superintendents report, different case reports of patients such as one with mania, as well as statistical and financial tables. I found the aspect of the document that was most intriguing was the medical superintendents report. The first thing about this was that it showed the numbers of male and female admitted to the facility as well as the numbers of those that were eventually released. In both of these it showed a higher amount of women being admitted and a lower number of women being released from the facility. This shocked me but at the same time when I thought about the time in which this report was written women still weren’t seen as needed much in terms of working. Also this makes me think of how many women could have been admitted who weren’t actually mentally ill and who were in reality just radical in their thinking for that time period. I also picked this part of the document as it showed how they wanted to show the facility as being a place where patients are receiving good care and provided with items that even the poor don’t have. They make it sound as though this alone should solve their mental illness but did having these luxuries make Bertha Rochester any better? The answer would be no, as she remained isolated for the world and did not receive what anyone today would call help. This document in connection with Jane Eyre is displaying that Rochester did believe he was doing Bertha a favor for keeping her hidden and isolated from the world but in the end that didn’t help him as she burnt the house to the ground. A question that comes to my mind is what would have actually helped Bertha during a time in which mental illness was not meant to be helped but hidden and isolated.