The Insanity Inspectors

1858. The first Lunacy Commissioners are appointed.  Their task is a difficult one, for not every lunatic can be classified as insane and not everyone who is insane is a lunatic.  

Scotland's ‘insanity inspectors' travel the country, deciding who can stay at home and who needs to be committed to an asylum. 

Lennox Cameron, a new inspector, splits his time between Edinburgh's polite society and inspecting the conditions of shocking suffering and cruelty in which many lunatics live in the Scottish Highlands.

As the search for the causes and cures for insanity become more desperate,  Lennox finds that the lines between what is right and what needs to be done become blurred.  He is forced to make decisions about his sanity, and his future.  It is the price he pays for being an honourable man.

Lennox has chosen purpose over achievement in his work as a physician, but Dr Peter Baird has darker motives for treating the insane.  He has found a way to profit from lunacy.  In the end he will pay a different price.

This story is based on real cases and real events.