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Panorama
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S33E10: No Asylum?

Panorama · 1985
Aired 11 Mar 1985 at 7:30pm (UTC)
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Synopsis

In night shelters and seedy guesthouses, some of the hundreds of mental patients discharged each year from hospital struggle against despair and neglect. Care in the community has been the great hope for the mentally ill, but with limited resources outside, has the policy of running down the old asylums gone too far too fast?

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