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The Manhattan Fire: Some Reflections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

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The serious outbreak of fire which occurred at the Manhattan State-Hospital, Ward's Island, New York, on February 18, resulting in the death of twenty-four patients and three nurses, recalls the terrible holocaust of Colney Hatch nearly twenty years ago. Although the Press reports which reached this country contained many inaccuracies, yet it is apparent that there are several features of similarity between the two occurrences.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1923 

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