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‘A Burden on the County’: Madness, Institutions of Confinement and the Irish Patient in Victorian Lancashire
This article explores the responses of the Poor Law authorities, asylum superintendents and Lunacy Commissioners to the huge influx of Irish patients into the Lancashire public asylum system, a system facing intense pressure in terms of numbers and costs, in the latter half of the nineteenth century...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4410825/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25931775 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hku082 |