TY - JOUR
T1 - Deadly vulnerabilities
T2 - The provisioning of psychiatric asylums in occupied Belgium (1914-1918)
AU - Roekens, Anne
AU - Majerus, Benoît
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Jan Dhondt Stichting. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - For those curious about the situation in Belgian psychiatric institutions during World War I (WW I), a book on the provincial institute of Lierneux indicated that its director Dr. Massault could not help but observe the decline in the number of patients over the course of these tragic years: shortly after the armistice of 1918, only 288 of the mentally ill placed in care remain (out of 376 patients): dif cult times, inadequate food allowances, the Spanish [in uenza] epidemic hunted a signi cant share of boarders.
AB - For those curious about the situation in Belgian psychiatric institutions during World War I (WW I), a book on the provincial institute of Lierneux indicated that its director Dr. Massault could not help but observe the decline in the number of patients over the course of these tragic years: shortly after the armistice of 1918, only 288 of the mentally ill placed in care remain (out of 376 patients): dif cult times, inadequate food allowances, the Spanish [in uenza] epidemic hunted a signi cant share of boarders.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85089507715
SN - 0035-0869
VL - 47
SP - 18
EP - 48
JO - Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis/ Revue Belge de Histoire Contemporaine
JF - Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis/ Revue Belge de Histoire Contemporaine
IS - 4
ER -