{"id":20607,"date":"2023-10-05T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/?post_type=pamphlets&#038;p=20607"},"modified":"2025-02-09T19:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T19:10:10","slug":"no-cure-no-pay-boarding-excepted","status":"publish","type":"pamphlets","link":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/pamphleteer\/no-cure-no-pay-boarding-excepted\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No Cure, no Pay, Boarding excepted\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long before the NHS, those who did not fit \u2018the norm\u2019 were consigned to workhouses or to private lunatic asylums. The latter provided a profitable business opportunity, as the wealthy were only too keen to offload family members whose behaviour was inconvenient. It was a system open to abuses that Daniel Defoe and others were keen to expose.<\/p>\n<p>In the Fishponds area of Bristol, one family lived off the proceeds for more than a century. The revealing tale of \u2018Mason\u2019s Madhouses\u2019 explains what life was like in such institutions, uncovers the techniques employed to cure or control the inmates, tells the stories of the main players, and recounts the sensational public inquiry that brought a dynasty down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"q-list\">\n<li>Read Mike Jempson&#8217;s article in the <a href=\"https:\/\/thebristolcable.org\/2024\/01\/home-for-the-hypochondriac-mad-and-distracted-remembering-the-madhouses-of-fishponds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bristol Cable<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A review of the book by <strong>Eugene Byrne<\/strong> in the <strong><em>Bristol Times<\/em><\/strong> history supplement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Bristol-Times-Masons-Madhouses.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bristol Times<\/a>\u00a0-28\/11\/2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before the NHS, those who did not fit \u2018the norm\u2019 were consigned to workhouses or to private lunatic asylums. 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