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Tuke House: Initial experience of a new community service for neurotic illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

David Newby ,
B. Lake  and
A. C. P. Sims
David Newby
Affiliation:
Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester (formerly Tutor/Honorary Registrar, Department of Psychiatry, University of Leeds)
B. Lake
Affiliation:
St James's University Hospital, Leeds
A. C. P. Sims
Affiliation:
St James's University Hospital, Leeds
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‘The number in each room rarely, if ever, exceeded ten. Here, I generally found several of the patients engaged in some useful or amusing employment. Every class seemed to form a little family … I incline to think, that the probability of recovery is greater, where a moderate number of patients associate together … I incline to think the number ought in no case to exceed fifteen’.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 11 , Issue 8 , August 1987 , pp. 269 - 271
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