A look at the role played by subscription hospitals in the development of psychiatry suggests that there were, historically, four generic receptacles for the insane: workhouses, madhouses, subscription hospitals and county asylums; and that the contribution of the first three, particularly the subscription hospitals, has been overshadowed by the hegemony achieved by the last.
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