VICTORIAN ASYLUM SCANDAL.
DRUGGING AND MALTREATING P4TIRNTB,
P=ir Press A socrtrn, Reoaive l 31 0.46 a.m. Melbourne, July 31
Tbe startling »B s ert'on has been made, in a p mphlet issued by the attendants and nurses at Victiiian Asylum 3, that at two of 'he big institutions near Melbourne, certain pa ients w r, bein;: drugged instead of b in™ pl»ced and-r physical res rain*. r he dug* leg d'o oe used are Chloral B md ■ and *n'ph"na>. Th» P'- ks havn ben fu ! ly supplied «i" utat- "-ff ts u «v me<>io<) men, and ! is hars d t" 'he effect that th>- inmates f::- "-d in a munn*? which A<o. unw'O ;<■ fvigntt'ul travesty of mercy.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 179, 31 July 1903, Page 3
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117VICTORIAN ASYLUM SCANDAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 179, 31 July 1903, Page 3
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