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7. Mental Hospital Reports for 1918

Some English and Welsh County and Borough Mental Hospitals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Extract

Bedford, Hertford and Huntingdon County.—It is not often that much literary merit characterises a visiting committee's report. The civil services have a jargon which is not so murderous to the King's English as that used in business circles or so pedantic as that which distinguishes army communications. The report under review is one of the exceptions, and though it opens with all due form and stateliness, comments like these are found:

Type
Part III.—Epitome of Current Literature
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1920 

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