Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: County Asylum for Lunatics

  • Mental hospital memories of another era

    Robert CraigBrisbane, Queensland, Australia In 1964, having obtained a place to study medicine at Cambridge University, I was given the opportunity as a medical student to work as an assistant nurse for three months in a large residential mental hospital in Suffolk, England. The pay was meager but board and lodging were included. Suffolk was…