Mental Hospitals and Community Care: Discussion Paper
Journal of the Royal Society of MedicinePublished 1 September 1986Open access
D. C. Watt
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Development ofmental hospitals Mental hospitals in the UK were mainly built in the second half of the last century the last in the 1930s, a major advance in affording the mentally disabled care and protection from community neglect and exploitation.
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