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A Place in the Country : Three Counties Asylum 1860-1999
Overview
In the mid-1850s, the counties of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire set about looking for a site for a new asylum to house their 'pauper lunatics'. Two hundred acres of farmland at Stotfold on the Hertfordshire--Bedfordshire border were purchased and in March 1860 the first patients were admitted to the new Three Counties Asylum (TCA). The asylum was in operation for almost a century and a half and, as approaches to treating mental illness changed, so did TCA.
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- ISBN-13: 9781909291508
- ISBN-10: 1909291501
- Publisher: Hertfordshire Publications
- Publish Date: September 2017
- Dimensions: 9.25 x 6.25 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.54 pounds
- Page Count: 192
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