Victorian reformers built large psychiatric hospitals to take the mentally III away from the horrors of the private mad house and the hostility of an Intolerant public. Now, as many of these buildings crumble, the government Is encouraging revolutionary plans to put thousands of psychiatric patients back into the community.
Roger Finnigan reports on these plans and the critics who say they could end in a social disaster. Producer JOHN DRURY Editor DAVID TAYLOR BBC Manchester
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