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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2018
* “We have no wish, however, to underrate the undeniable benefits which have arisen from the noble institution in St. George's Fields. The Bethlehem of to-day is infinitely superior, even structurally considered, to its predecessor in Moorfields; but it has still failed to keep pace with the very rapid advance in the study of psychological medicine, and the consequent modifications in treatment which have taken place during the last twenty years. It is, indeed, wonderful how, with the very limited and circumscribed means at their disposal, the hospital authorities have been enabled to accomplish even that which they have done towards ministering to the comfort and solace of their patients. The interior of Bedlam shows a most determined, and, in most instances, a triumphant, struggle of modern benevolence, taste, and ingenuity, to vanquish architectural conditions which were normally gloomy and repulsive; but there is one thing which organizers the most fertile in expedients have been unable to effect, namely, to procure additional external space for air and exercise. With the very limited acreage around it, Bedlam could never become a perfect school for demonstrating the curability of mental diseases; but removed into the country, where spacious gardens and farm lands can be provided, experiments can be tried and results obtained that may inaugurate another era in the pathology of insanity. The new institution should be, in all respects, a model.” —Daily Telegraph.Google Scholar
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