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A Hostel for Mentally Ill Patients Run by a Psychiatric Hospital

An Evaluation of Four Years' Work and Comparison with Local Authority Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

D. Lindsay Walker
D. Lindsay Walker*
Affiliation:
Horton Road and Coney Hill Hospitals, Gloucester
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In 1961 I decided to start a hostel for discharged male psychiatric patients. There was available a private house in the City of Gloucester near to the Day Hospital. This had been purchased in 1953 and was being used as an overspill annexe for long-stay male patients.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 495 , February 1967 , pp. 167 - 171
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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