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Missing Women 1950..1992
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Ed Stone | Report | 29 Jul 2008 21:36 |
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Caz | Report | 29 Jul 2008 15:32 |
I've just watched the newsnight programme on the BBC website. It's heartbreaking. It makes you wonder if this happened in other parts of the country too. The injustice of the the way those poor women were treated astounds me and the really worrying thing is that the legislation used to carry this out still exists today, thankfully the asylums don't. |
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Elisabeth | Report | 29 Jul 2008 12:35 |
The item was on Newsnight LAST night, sorry. |
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Angela | Report | 29 Jul 2008 12:34 |
Years ago I was a home help to an elderly lady, Mary who had worked at an asylum when she was young. She made friends with a little girl who she said was terrified of going to a certain part of the hospital as she claimed people never returned from there. One day Mary went to work and the little girl had disappeared and she never saw her again! I expect quite a lot of problem people were hidden away then. |
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~~Trassle | Report | 29 Jul 2008 12:01 |
On the bbc news website is a very good article about 50 women who where typhoid carriers so locked up in Long Grove asylum between 1950 -1992 when it finally closed.newsnight will do a report about it at 10.30 tonight.The website does list all 50 women....Very sad, could be someone on heres relative. |