Abstract

Having viewed the Glastonbury Festival for many years as local residents, it seemed time for us to venture inside and see how 100,000 people can converge onto a dairy farm in rural Somerset for three days of music and assorted entertainments. We were interested in reactions to such intensely communal living and also the organisational aspects of psychiatric services in this extreme version of community care.

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  • Having viewed the Glastonbury Festival for many years as local residents, It seemed time for us to venture Inside and see how 100,000 people can converge onto a dairy farm in rural

  • The entertainment started on Friday, 24 June 1994 lasting until Sunday night, but people started arriving a few days beforehand, and drifted away afterwards sporadically

  • The medical centre itself Is sited at the farmhouse, where 60 doctors and nearly 400 other clinical staff provide 24 hour cover, mostly on a voluntary basis-nearly 2000 people used this provision over the weekend

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Introduction

Having viewed the Glastonbury Festival for many years as local residents, It seemed time for us to venture Inside and see how 100,000 people can converge onto a dairy farm in rural. Concerns have been raised that such a large number of people put undue pressure on the local medical and police services, and that undesirable, drug-dealing 'hippies' are attracted Into the area. Congregating In the area, but this time they seem to have been kept well away, and only those with £59entrance tickets allowed near.

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