Superintendent's Daily Journal, 1880 - 1889
Reference Code: RG 10-20-F-4, Vol. 1
Archives of Ontario
This is an image of a page from the Daily Journal kept by the Medical Superintendent of the Kingston Psychiatric Hospital to record observations taken during his daily rounds of the wards. This page is part of an entry dated 15 August 1885, recorded not by the chief superintendent, Dr. Metcalf, but rather by his assistant, C.K. Clarke. On that day, a patient rushed at Metcalf with a knife and fatally wounded him. Clarke records all the lurid details, complete with a life-size diagram of the weapon, as well as subsequent newspaper clippings. Clarke went on to become a well-known psychiatrist, for whom the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry (now part of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) is named.
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