Asylum Scandals.
STARTLING' REVELATIONS IN VICTORIA. The startling assertion has been made in a pamphlet issued by attendants and nurses at the Victorian asylums, that at two of the big institutions near Melbourne certain patients were being drugged instead of being placed under physical restraint. The drugs alleged to be used are chloral, bromide and sulphonal. The press has been fully supplied with statements by medical men and discharged patients to the effect that inmates of the institutions were treated in a manner which amounts to a frightful travesty of mercy.
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Manawatu Herald, 1 August 1903, Page 2
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91Asylum Scandals. Manawatu Herald, 1 August 1903, Page 2
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