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Voluntary Boarders in English Asylums

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

R. Percy Smith*
Affiliation:
Bethlem Hospital, London

Extract

The object of this paper is to state briefly what appears to the writer to be the law as to voluntary boarders in asylums (under which term is included all English institutions for the reception of persons of unsound mind), to narrate the practice observed in such cases at Bethlem Hospital, and to gain information from those members of the Association who are engaged in the treatment of mental disease as to their practice.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1896

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