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The Colney Hatch Fire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

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The suffocation of fifty insane persons, as the result of a fire in an English asylum, constitutes a tragedy that might have been hoped to be impossible. Yet, despite the magnitude of the loss of life, there is much reason to be thankful that it was not greater.

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