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History of London County Lunatic Asylums & Mental Hospitals (Brandon Ed)(Paperback / softback) - diskuze

History of London County Lunatic Asylums & Mental Hospitals (Brandon Ed)(Paperback / softback)
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Výrobce: Pen & Sword Books Ltd

EAN: 9781399008730

Výrobní číslo: 9781399008730

From the Middle-Ages onwards, London's notorious Bedlam lunatic hospital saw the city's 'mad' locked away in dank cells, neglected and abused and without any real cure and little comfort. The unprecedented growth of the metropolis after the Industrial Revolution saw a perceived 'epidemic' of madness take hold, with 'county asylums' seen by those in power as the most humane or cost-effective way to offer the mass confinement and treatment believed necessary.
The county of Middlesex - to which London once belonged - would build and open three huge county asylums from 1831, and when London became its own county in 1889 it would adopt all three and go on to build or run another eight such immense institutions. Each operated much like a self-contained town; home to thousands and often incorporating its own railway, laundries, farms, gardens, kitchens, ballroom, sports pitches,

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