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Bicetre made part of HG.
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By the 1750s Bethlem was accepting tens of thousands of paying visitors a year, making it a top tourist attraction for Londoners
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a complementary hospital to Bethlem
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special dedicated wards for the mad
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small community living in a quiet country house: a combination of rest, talk, and manual work, while minimising restraints and cultivating rationality and moral strength.
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more humane treatments began
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permitted, but did not compel establishment of an asylum in each county.
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named Provincial Lunatic asylum. For updates see wikipedia
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After abuses of lettres de cachet, under pressure from reform doctors, this law mandated every French district to set up a lunatic asylum; provided a framework for the assistance, care, and protection of people with mental illness; and eliminated the possibility of arbitrary detention.
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required every county to have a madhouse; formally named the mad as "patients" for the first time.
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renamed Asylum for the Insane in 1871, Hospital for the Insane in 1905, and simply Ontario Hospital, Toronto as of 1919. In 1996, it became Queen Street Mental Health Centre and finally, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in 1998
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persons deemed to be “lunatics” could be committed to an insane asylum upon certificates issued by doctors who examined the patient in each other’s presence.
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