Welcome to WHO Lies Beneath: The Asylum. This podcast is about restoring dignity and respect by giving a voice to the voiceless. On the old Athens Lunatic ... 1900 patients who weren’t claimed ...

"Patients who were put in there were ... It wasn't called asylum for nothing. People think oh, lunatic asylum, bad place, but people seek asylum. It was for people to be looked after," he added.

Never in the history of Columbus was there such a conflagration as that at the Lunatic Asylum, of which we gave a hasty and necessary partial account yesterday, as all ?? of rumors were Bring ...

By then, however, the treatment of psychiatric patients had changed – and so had the facility’s name. Over its 100-plus year history, the facility was called the Athens Lunatic Asylum ...

Edward Canby issued an order as military governor of Virginia that required the state to establish a “temporary lunatic asylum” for ... of the humanity of the patients.” ...

Behind the walls of an old mental asylum are rumours of ghosts haunting the run-down brickwork. Beechworth Lunatic Asylum was open in a Victoria town in Australia from 1867 to 1995. Most of its ...

Selina Baiss, from Shepton Mallet, was said to be "demented, incoherent and noisy" and had been an asylum patient ... Somerset and Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum. "Patients who were put in there ...