Fit Person to be Removed
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- Abstract / Summary
- Seventeen personal accounts of life in a mental deficiency institution from long-term residents. Many had been incarcerated under the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act as 'a fit person to be removed' from society: some simply because they had learning difficulties or they were pregnant outside marriage, another as victim of cerebral palsy. They speak out about their ways of coping with the devastating effects of institutional life and, for some, coming to terms with rejoining the wider community as a result of changing mental health and 'community care' practices.
- Field of Interest
- Letters and Diaries
- Content Type
- Oral history
- Format
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- URL
- http://cadensa.bl.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/x/0/49/%20
- Publisher
- British Library. National Sound Archive
- Place Published / Released
- England
- Subject
- Letters and Diaries, History, Reino Unido, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain, Britain, Kingdom of Great Britain, Europe, United Kingdom
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Reino Unido, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain, Britain, Kingdom of Great Britain