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Asylum - Inside the Pauper Lunatic Asylums (Paperback)
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Asylum - Inside the Pauper Lunatic Asylums (Paperback)
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List price R484
Loot Price R394
Discovery Miles 3 940
You Save R90 (19%)
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A stranger has come To share my room in the house not right in the
head, A girl mad as birds - Dylan Thomas, 'Love in the Asylum' With
the advent of 'care in the community' for the mentally afflicted,
the self-contained villages for the apparently insane have now been
consigned to the history books. These once bustling Victorian
institutions were commonly known in the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries as the 'county asylum' or the 'pauper lunatic
asylum', and were an accepted and essential part of society for
nearly two centuries. It is difficult to believe that in 1914 there
were 102 such asylums, accommodating over 100,000 patients, the
majority of whom lived their entire lives under care and treatment.
Today, with the exception of those that have already been
demolished, these buildings now lie empty and derelict, or have
been converted for contemporary living. Through this photographic
book we journey into the inner sanctum of a world of lost dreams,
where hope was more often than not unwillingly traded for an
uncomfortable acceptance.
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