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Joint Counties Asylum, Carmarthen (Annual Report for 1899)

... Dr. E. Goodall, the medical superintendent, points out in his report that "a thorough overhauling of the defective parts will be desirable before the building comes into use as a permanent accommodation." Among the admissions is described a case of "moral insanity" — viz., a young girl admitted for the fourth time. "There being no defect or derangement of mind upon which a certificate of detention in an asylum could be returned she could not be kept here. This girl is a source of great trouble at home, but is neither mad enough to be in the asylum nor bad enough to be in gaol, and is probably best suited for a reformatory."...

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Lancet, 13 October 1900, 1079.

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