The Eastern Counties' Asylum for Idiots, Imbeciles and the Feeble-Minded compared with some similar institutions elsewhere : with notes upon the question of tuberculosis / by Edgar A. Hunt, honorary consulting surgeon to the institution.

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The Eastern Counties' Asylum for Idiots, Imbeciles and the Feeble-Minded compared with some similar institutions elsewhere : with notes upon the question of tuberculosis / by Edgar A. Hunt, honorary consulting surgeon to the institution.