Abstract
The modern hospital does credit to latter day civilisation. Physical restraint is no longer practised. Neat dormitories, cosy single rooms, and sitting and dining rooms please the eye. In place of bare walls and floors and curtainless windows are pictures, plants, rugs, birds, curtains and, in many asylums, even the barred windows have been abolished.1 This quotation from the Encyclopaedia Britannica of 1911 is part of an article on the mentally ill and mentally handicapped, which ends with the sentence, But the ideal system is that of the psychopathic hospital and the colony for the insane.
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