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The Inadequate Asylum Provision for the Insane Immediately above the Pauper Class

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

David Bower*
Affiliation:
Springfield House Asylum, Bedford

Extract

During a period of nearly twenty years' management of a private asylum for middle-class patients, and a like period of consultation practice in our specialty, I have had constantly brought to my notice the difficulty—very often, indeed, the impossibility—of finding proper accommodation for insane patients unable to pay fees of more than fifteen to twenty-five shillings per week, and the difficulty has vastly increased with the increasing numbers of pauper lunatics who now crowd out the already very small number of private patients provided for in county and borough asylums.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1899 

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