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A Description of the Steps Taken in a Mental Hospital to Prevent the Spread of Dysentery and Allied Infectious Diseases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

M. J. McGrath
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Wakefield Mental Hospital was opened in the year 1818. Within a few days there appear in the case-books notes describing patients suffering from diarrhœa with blood and mucus. During the years 1818 to 1910 these or similar notes appear with such monotonous regularity that it would lead an outsider to believe that dysentery and its allied diseases were natural or at least unpreventable in asylums.

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Research Article
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 74 , Issue 307 , October 1928 , pp. 720 - 726
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1928 

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∗ Details of epidemics can be found on reference to the nine post-war annual reports from the laboratory and to the special reports published in the annual reports of the Board of Control.Google Scholar

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