A CITY OF LUNATICS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2573, 6 April 1877, Page 3

A CITY OF LUNATICS.

The town of Gheel, in the Province of Antwerp, has been for centuries the abode of madmen. There are H',ooo inhabitants in the place, and they have charge of 1300 lunatics from abroad, who are among the families and are treated with great consideration. Ihe children .from youth are familiarised with the business, and all the people .know how to manage thosecommitted to their charge. t)ne of the greatest social punishments that can be inflicted oa a family is to declare that it is unfit to receive such boarders. The lunatics are disposed 'of among the inhabitants according to their wealth or stations, the better families receiving the wealthier patients. The cures average, it is said, from fifty to seventy-five tq the hundred. Gheel is divided into four districts, each with its [ overseer and physician. Large sums of , money are spent in the, "place by the patients, and families generally are desirous of having one or more lunatics on their hands.

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