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A record of the injustices suffered under the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. How did Joe, the lively child of elderly parents, become an inmate at the age of 9 of a mental deficiency institution? Or Elizabeth, suffering the loss of her illegitimate child? Or Margaret, aged 5 and a victim of cerebral palsy? How were such children considered a fit person to be removed under the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act? In this book 17 long-term residents of The Park Colony - survivors who have endured a lifetime of enforced segregation from family, friends and once familiar places - speak out about their experiences and their ways of coping. The recent changes in care management may have come too late for some of the 17 people whose first-hand testimonies of the devastating effects of institutional life are chronicled here.

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