Bethlem Hospital annual report, 1842
Apr 07, 2020
2 minutes
INTERVIEW BY ROSEMARY COLLINS
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Bethlem Royal Hospital, once nicknamed ‘Bedlam’, was founded in London in 1247 and has been a working mental hospital since 1400, using changing ideas about psychiatry to treat its patients. Records of the hospital’s long history are kept by the Bethlem Museum of the Mind, whose archivist, David Luck, tells us how an 1842 report captures the hospital in a state of change.
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