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Hospitals, Psychiatric

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  • Hospitals and asylums of the world : their origin, history, construction, administration, management, and legislation; with plans of the chief medical institutions accurately drawn to a uniform scale, in addition to those of all the hospitals of London in the jubilee year of Queen Victoria's reign / by Henry C. Burdett.
  • The story of Bethlehem Hospital from its foundation in 1247 / by Edward Geoffrey O'Donoghue.
  • Reports upon Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1885.
  • Hospitals and asylums of the world : their origin, history, construction, administration, management, and legislation; with plans of the chief medical institutions accurately drawn to a uniform scale, in addition to those of all the hospitals of London in the jubilee year of Queen Victoria's reign / by Henry C. Burdett.
  • Description of the Retreat, an institution near York, for insane persons of the Society of Friends : containing an account of its origin and progress, the modes of treatment, and a statement of cases / By Samuel Tuke. With an elevation and plans of the building.
  • The Metropolitan Asylums Board and its work, 1867-1930 / compiled by Sir Allan Powell.
  • The Metropolitan Asylums Board and its work, 1867-1930 / compiled by Sir Allan Powell.
  • Hospitals and asylums of the world : their origin, history, construction, administration, management, and legislation; with plans of the chief medical institutions accurately drawn to a uniform scale, in addition to those of all the hospitals of London in the jubilee year of Queen Victoria's reign / by Henry C. Burdett.
  • The treatment of the insane without mechanical restraints / by John Conolly.
  • The Metropolitan Asylums Board and its work, 1867-1930 / compiled by Sir Allan Powell.
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    Inside the asylum / by John Vincent ; with an introduction by Vera Brittain.

    Vincent, John | Date: 1948
  • view Twelfth annual report of the New York Asylum for Idiots : transmitted to the Legislature February 4th, 1863 / New York State Asylum for Idiots.
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    Twelfth annual report of the New York Asylum for Idiots : transmitted to the Legislature February 4th, 1863 / New York State Asylum for Idiots.

    New York State Asylum for Idiots | Date: 1863
  • view On the construction and management of hospitals for the insane : with a particular notice of the institution at Sieburg / by Maximilian Jacobi ; translated by John Kitching ; with introductory observations, &c. by Samuel Tuke.
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    On the construction and management of hospitals for the insane : with a particular notice of the institution at Sieburg / by Maximilian Jacobi ; translated by John Kitching ; with introductory observations, &c. by Samuel Tuke.

    | Date: 1841
  • view The sixty-fourth report of the visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum, Stafford : for the year ending December 31, 1882.
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    The sixty-fourth report of the visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum, Stafford : for the year ending December 31, 1882.

    Staffordshire County Lunatic Asylum (Stafford, England) | Date: [1883]
  • view Twenty-first annual report on the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum / Buckinghamshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
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    Twenty-first annual report on the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum / Buckinghamshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

    St. John's Hospital (Stone, Buckinghamshire, England) | Date: [1874]
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