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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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1 Planning and Building the Asylum2 The Social Landscape of a Victorian Asylum3 Edwardian Psychiatry and the First World War4 Modernisation, New Therapies and the NHS

Place in the Country: Three Counties Asylum

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      Publisher: University of Hertfordshire Press
      Publication Date: 30/09/2017
      ISBN13: 9781909291508, 978-1909291508
      ISBN10: 1909291501
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      1 Planning and Building the Asylum2 The Social Landscape of a Victorian Asylum3 Edwardian Psychiatry and the First World War4 Modernisation, New Therapies and the NHS

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