No / The First World War (1914-18) was a period of dramatic and
rapid change for both staff and patients in asylums across the UK.
Many British asylums were requisitioned by the army from 1915
for use as wartime hospitals, leading to mass evacuation of over
10,000 patients. Using contemporary resources, this article will
review the impact of this and other significant changes that took
place in wartime, which included variations in working practices,
staff shortages, food rationing and a significant rise in the
asylum death rate. Contributing factors will be considered with
analysis and discussion of eye-witness, historical, documentary,
parliamentary and meteorological evidence.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/6762 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Devine, Judith, Barton-Wright, Philip |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, No full-text in the repository |
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