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A LUNATIC VILLAGE". 23.
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homme . que Von raisonnahle ne puisse " plus and , fa because ire de dis being tinction blamed entre un for 7 io ? scandals nme foil et and un ;
disorders always stoutl arising y defend from their excessive inmates , non , say -restraint ing , A , h . est tlie I mon le said meilleur fou nourriciers n _' est enfant pas
du mediant nionde , il . " ne fait The de bailli inal is d , personne however ; , bien evidentl plus y c _' scandalized that it
• was was not frequentl ! a result y impossible hihlhonorable at Gheel to to the tell tr who eatment was of mad the p and atie who nts . gy
tig While hter , the official strings regulations of local disci sometimes pline at relaxed Gheel , and the condition sometimes long custom until drew the of kept the colony in ' substantiallthe same
end ages of the eighteenth century ; when y , in 1795 , Belgium was conquered active and by France intelli . gent It then man happened ointed that b M the . de First Pontecoul Consul and to , be an
, appy prefet struck of by the the department liberty enj of oyed which by the Brussels insan was e Brussels patients the cap at ital Gheel , was ,
together compared in with a narrow those confined space , amidst in the privations asylum of of themselves — " them heaped suffi all
cient to render them incurable . " He very wisely cleared out authorities and sent of them Malines to Ghe Lierre el ; and Tirlernont this example Louvain was followed , and by other the
secondary village towns and . Public in 1825 , attention Dr , Guislain was thus a , celebrated drawn to professor the inte of
the resting of asy University lums in , Bel of g Ghent ium , , entered who had . on alread a contest serious y , labored examination for to - the have reform of taken the pursued at GheelA warm appears
system p system lace among ; ¦ regulations authorities were c . oncerning promulgated the benefits by the linked and local abuses authorities of this
which they the colony were were by of shirke tie which s of d b blood y the the princi and inhabitants nei le ghborhood was of incontestabl Gheel . , At leng y proved th together , in 1850 to be as ,
medical advantageous men , , and was placed inspector under p being Government specially entrusted inspection with ; four its and the
post welfare was . The filled of mark latter successively . fun We ctionary have by Dr therefore was . Pari also _got to a describe p and hysician Dr . the , Bulekens actual , both men
condition of Gheel at the present time , when its singular systempurified the growth , and of enforced ages of by faith the newest and charit resources y—has of been modern enlig medical htened ,
science The . traveller iir walking through the streets of Gheel would very of the all
probabl streets bears windows the w y ith be other same their far s appearance at from few work passers divining in as the -by in , the gardens other curious character country , here folks and tow looking ns there . locality out The scattered of quiet ; the
loungers , at the cafes ; general silence and monotony—such is the
A Lunatic Village". 23.
A LUNATIC VILLAGE " . 23 .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1861, page 23, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031861/page/23/
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