CRIMINAL LUNATICS
BROADMOOR, by Ralph Partridge; Chatto and Windus. English price, 21/-. : "PHE several attempts by madmen on the life of Queen Victoria drew public attention to the need for a’ separate institution for criminal lunatics (continued on next. page)
BOOKS (Continued from previous page) and Broadmoor was built as a result. This is a sympathetic and informative history of: the asylum and an account of the treatment of patients. There are no dramatic cures, but kindness and peaceful surroundings have beneficial restorative effects. Only a few ofthe worst cases (called disturbed cases) have to be absolutely confined. If they are able to read they are given the Tatler, for its stiff glossy pages cannot be used
for suicide by choking.
F.J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 740, 18 September 1953, Page 13
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123CRIMINAL LUNATICS New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 740, 18 September 1953, Page 13
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