A Mental Deficiency Institution in Wartime *I am indebted to Dr. F. Douglas Turner, Medical Superintendent, Royal Eastern Counties Institution, for permission to publish this article and for valuable criticism.

Situated as we are with only eighteen miles between us and the coast, and with the Central Institution and Turner Village and three other branches within a military town, it is not surprising that we should have had our first air raid warning within twenty-four hours of the declaration of War. Since then, we have experienced screaming bombs, witnessed aerial dog-fights, steered clear of unexploded bombs, feasted our eyes on wrecks of enemy 'planes and treasured fragments of shells. Our boys and girls, in fact, pride themselves, not without some justification, on their Wartime experiences.