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Paperback Practical Hints for the Construction and Economy of Pauper Lunatic Asylums Book

ISBN: 1108080278

ISBN13: 9781108080279

Practical Hints for the Construction and Economy of Pauper Lunatic Asylums

The Quaker philanthropist Samuel Tuke (1784-1857) was the grandson of William Tuke, the founder in 1796 of the Retreat at York, a pioneering asylum for the insane which championed compassionate care and the abolition of physical restraints. Samuel succeeded his grandfather in the management of the Retreat in 1822, but before that was already active in promoting its principles of humane treatment, and publicising the appalling conditions in which 'pauper...

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