The History of Mental Handicap in Bristol and Bath (Part 1)

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  • J. Jancar
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The cities of Bristol and Bath have played an eminent role in the history of mental handicap. Unfortunately, documentation is rather scanty, particu larly on the pre and post Reformation era but much more is known about the Holy Cross Hospital in Bath, perhaps the oldest mental handicap hospital in Great Britain. The Romans contributed to its foundations when they built Fossway Road on the outskirts of Bath which the pilgrims later used to visit Glastonbury. Sited next to the Holy Cross Hospital is the Chapel of St Mary Magdalen, Holloway (Holy Way). The earliest edifice on this site would appear to have been erected before the Norman Conquest, as stated at the end of an old Saxon Manuscript of the Four Gospels in Latin dated 983. The Chapel was built beside a spring water well where the pilgrims used to stop to rest and pray. A hostel was built next to the Chapel in 1212and in 1235 it was labelled as a lepers' house. In 1263an undated deed appeared in the Bath

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دوره 101  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1986