单词 | broadmoor |
释义 | Broadmoorn. The name of an institution for the treatment of mentally ill patients under special conditions on account of their dangerous, violent, or criminal propensities (formerly housing the ‘criminally insane’). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the mentally ill > specific bedlam1528 Broadmoor1868 1868 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 14 216 Dr. Meyer gives the following account of the singularly liberal arrangements made by the Council at Broadmoor as relates both to the wages and well-being of the servants. 1914 E. G. O'Donoghue Story of Bethlehem Hosp. xxxv. 345 Broadmoor was built under the provisions of the Act passed in 1860 (23 and 24 Vict. c. 75). The asylum was completed in..1863. 1960 K. Jones Mental Health 223 The Royal Commission on Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency, 1954–7..suggested that consideration should be given to the question of whether Broadmoor procedures could be assimilated to those for other patients. 1976 Milton Keynes Express 18 June 9/4 A man who attacked a policeman with a builder's hod and used it to fend off six other officers and a police dog at Bletchley, has been sent to Broadmoor. Compounds Broadmoor patient n. a former designation of a person classified as criminally insane. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [noun] > mad person > criminally insane person Broadmoor patient1948 1948 Act 11 & 12 Geo. VI c. 58 §62 (2) The expression ‘criminal lunatic’ shall cease to be used; and there shall be substituted for it wherever it occurs in any enactment the expression ‘Broadmoor patient’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1868 |
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