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Sketches from the history of psychiatry

The fire at Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, 1903, remembered

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Henry R. Rollin
Henry R. Rollin*
Affiliation:
History of Psychiatry Group
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On the night of 16/17 November 1988, fire destroyed a male ward at Friern Barnet Hospital in North London. Two patients died in the conflagration and one was injured.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , April 1989 , pp. 188 - 189
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989

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