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Missing Women 1950..1992

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Ed Stone

Ed Stone Report 29 Jul 2008 21:36

Hi,
Not only typhoid carriers were locked up but also family members who were considered totally unruly or would not yield to authority. They too were locked up.

Herbert

Caz

Caz Report 29 Jul 2008 15:32

I've just watched the newsnight programme on the BBC website. It's heartbreaking. It makes you wonder if this happened in other parts of the country too. The injustice of the the way those poor women were treated astounds me and the really worrying thing is that the legislation used to carry this out still exists today, thankfully the asylums don't.

Caz

Elisabeth

Elisabeth Report 29 Jul 2008 12:35

The item was on Newsnight LAST night, sorry.

I recorded it and have watched it this morning. How sad for those poor ladies, many well educated, to be confined in solitary confinement for decades, especially as they were not 'ill', just carriers of typhoid.

Elisabeth

Angela

Angela Report 29 Jul 2008 12:34

Years ago I was a home help to an elderly lady, Mary who had worked at an asylum when she was young. She made friends with a little girl who she said was terrified of going to a certain part of the hospital as she claimed people never returned from there. One day Mary went to work and the little girl had disappeared and she never saw her again! I expect quite a lot of problem people were hidden away then.

~~Trassle

~~Trassle Report 29 Jul 2008 12:01

On the bbc news website is a very good article about 50 women who where typhoid carriers so locked up in Long Grove asylum between 1950 -1992 when it finally closed.newsnight will do a report about it at 10.30 tonight.The website does list all 50 women....Very sad, could be someone on heres relative.
It is titled Life Sentence.