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- The First World War (1914–18) was a period of dramatic and rapid change for both staff and patients in asylums across the UK. Many British asylums were requisitioned by the army from 1915 for use as wartime hospitals, leading to mass evacuation of over 10,000 patients.
www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/full/10.12968/bjmh.2014.3.6.264The impact of World War I on asylums in the UK | British ...
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Mar 4, 2021 · This historical account, complete with detailed references, describes the fate of the mentally ill residents of four asylums all within the London area during the First World War.
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Mar 6, 2014 · The First World War (1914–18) was a period of dramatic and rapid change for both staff and patients in asylums across the UK. Many British asylums were requisitioned by the army from 1915 for use as wartime hospitals, leading to mass evacuation of over 10,000 patients.
- Judith Devine, Philip Barton Wright
- 2014
Oct 31, 2020 · Britain declared war against Germany on 4 August 1914. For the next four years military priorities over-rode those of civilians. The entire population faced hardships, but for people designated “pauper lunatics” in public asylums, life became very harsh....
- Claire Hilton
- 2021
The First World War (1914–18) was a period of dramatic and rapid change for both staff and patients in asylums across the UK. Many British asylums were requisitioned by the army from 1915 for use as wartime hospitals, leading to mass evacuation of over 10,000 patients.
- December 15, 2014
- 2014
- December 15, 2014
Nov 2, 2014 · The First World War (1914–18) was a period of dramatic and rapid change for both staff and patients in asylums across the UK. Many British asylums were requisitioned by the army from 1915 for...
Explores the effects of wartime austerity and deprivation on the provision of care across four London asylums. Draws extensively on archival and published sources to reveal the impact of medical, scientific, political, cultural and social change on civilian asylums.
Jan 1, 2021 · At the beginning of the war, the asylums were a story of good intentions gone awry, “vast warehouses for the chronically insane and demented,” the failed dreams of social reformers and...
