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Psychiatry in the 1880s

Private Asylums

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

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‘Between 1846 and 1879 the produce of a penny income tax has risen from £750,000 to £1,750,000, notwithstanding a much greater exemption; and the inhabited house duty has advanced in about a similar ratio; leaving little doubt that a considerable increase in the paying capabilities of the middle classes has been diffused throughout the country.

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