Quoted by Micheal Finn, 'The West Riding Lunatic Asylum and the making of the modern brain sciences in the nineteenth century', University of Leeds PhD thesis (2012).
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'The BMJ, linking Ferrier and others associated with the asylum back to Bell and Marshall Hall as 'benefactors of mankind', noted that Wakefield, "under the initiative of its present most able director, was affording facilities for the furtherance of the studies of these men, and for the application of their work to the treatment of mental disease; and in doing so, with the hearty concurrence of the visiting magistrates... was setting a high example, which could not but be fruitful in great results, and might well be widely imitated." The asylum was seen as home to the leading edge of neurological research.' (135)