Third Progress Report from the Select Committee on the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum .

[Lunatic Asylums]

Published by John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, 1884

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Melbourne, John Ferres, Government Printer, 1884. Foolscap folio, vi, 77 pages. Title-wrappers, stab-sewn as issued, all edges uncut; edges slightly foxed; half a dozen leaves near the centre are foxed or stained; a very good copy (but in fact, uncirculated). Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 41 of 1861-2. The Select Committee also enquired into the treatment of the lunatics in the Melbourne Gaol. This progress report contains the detailed answers to 1832 questions: two of them should suffice . '672: What was Coates's conduct towards the other patients? - Very irritating; he argued with them on religious matters, and he was very nearly killed by one patient for calling the Virgin Mary a wh--e. 673: You have no doubt he was insane? - I think he must have been insane when he made that remark'. Seller Inventory # 56107

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Title: Third Progress Report from the Select ...

Publisher: John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne

Publication Date: 1884

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition.