The Mental Diseases Hospital, Singapore (1st 100 years) --Part IV
Lee, Y.K.
Singapore Medical Journal 34(1): 67-73
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-5675 PMID: 8266135 Document Number: 407375
This article (in four parts) traces the history of the first four Mental Hospitals built in Singapore, which were occupied in 1840, 1861, 1887 and 1928. The management of the patients is described; also their lives and deaths. Mention is also made of the doctors and others who looked after them.
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