Mental observation wards: an alternative provision for emergency psychiatric care in England in the first half of the twentieth century

In England in the early twentieth century, mental observation wards in workhouses developed as a parallel service to the asylums for emergency mental health admissions under the 1890 Lunacy Act, particularly in urban areas and especially London on account of local policy. The purpose of the wards wa...

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Veröffentlicht in:	History of psychiatry 2021-12, Vol.32 (4), p.419-435
1. Verfasser:	Cowan, Colin
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	History of medicine and histology
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