Cruel Practice
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a substantial proportion of the bed population? Neither Sir George nor the speakers who followed him attempted to indicate that almost unbelievable inadequacies in general care and in therapy can await these old people. The cruel practice of stripping them of their belongings, including spectacles, dentures and hearing-aids, was not mentioned, though the Minister of Health has acknowledged its being followed in 'a minority of hospitals'?which could obviously mean anything up to 49 per cent of all hospitals, both mental and general (Hansard, August 2, 1965). Only at the end of the session dealing with senility did we get near to what I feel to be the 'heart' of
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