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Joint Counties Asylum, Carmarthen (Annual Report for 1899)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

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… Dr. E. Goodall, the medical superintendent, points out in his report that “a thorough overhauling of the defective parts will be desirable before the building comes into use as a permanent accommodation.” Among the admissions is described a case of “moral insanity” — viz., a young girl admitted for the fourth time. “There being no defect or derangement of mind upon which a certificate of detention in an asylum could be returned she could not be kept here. This girl is a source of great trouble at home, but is neither mad enough to be in the asylum nor bad enough to be in gaol, and is probably best suited for a reformatory.”…

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Lancet, 13 October 1900, 1079.Google Scholar
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