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On a Recent Visit to Gheel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

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Having availed myself of the opportunity afforded me of visiting Gheel a second time when attending the Psychological Congress at Antwerp in September, I propose to describe this remarkable insane colony, as I think it cannot fail to suggest important questions and considerations, in regard to which much difference of opinion still exists.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1886

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Footnotes

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The usual scale of payments per annum for the non-indigent is as follows : —£16,£20,£24,£28,£32,£40,£48,£80,£96,£120,£144.

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“ Gheel et lo Patronage Familial,” pago 33.

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M. Gife, an architect, states in a work published by a literary society of Turnhout, that there was in even the seventh century a chapel on the site of the existing church, dedicated to St. Martin. He gives the date of the building of the church of St. Dymphna as the 12th century.

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One of the admitted hardships connected with Gheel is that the Wallon insane sent there are amongst the Flemish instead of their own race. At Liernenx, this disadvantage does not exist (see notice of the Belgian Congress of Psychiatry in “ Notes and News.”)

“ Des Colonies d'Alienes,”1884, p. 4.

“ Gheel et le Patronage Familial.

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