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Estimating quality of life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Glenn Roberts
Glenn Roberts*
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North Devon District Hospital, Barnstaple, North Devon (Avon Rotation, Bristol)
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Enoch Powell's famous ‘Water Tower’ speech, in which he described mental hospitals as, “Majestic, imperious, brooding institutions… rising unmistak ably and daunting out of the countryside”, inaugur ated the policy of successive governments to close the large mental hospitals and care for the chronically mentally ill “in the community”.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 14 , Issue 10 , October 1990 , pp. 586 - 589
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