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On the Question of Getting, Training, and Retaining the Services of Good Asylum Attendants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

T. S. Clouston
T. S. Clouston*
Affiliation:
Royal Edinburgh Asylum
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There were in Great Britain in the beginning of 1875 about 72,000 insane persons registered and under control. For the care and treatment of these there are at least 6000 paid officials, whose sole duty it is to act as their attendants and nurses. This is reckoning them as one to twelve patients over all, the usual proportion in County Asylums; the numbers less than this in Poorhouses being made up for by the extra number employed in the care of the wealthier classes.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 22 , Issue 99 , October 1876 , pp. 381 - 388
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1876 

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