Cold Baths Don’t Work

A History of Mental Health Care in the Hitchin Area

Mike Clarke

A history of mental health care in the Hitchin area from earliest times, when mental illness was known as ‘lunacy’ and learning difficulties as ‘idiocy’, to the founding of Fairfield Three Counties Hospital in the 1850s, and later. Mike Clarke has written a thoroughly-researched illustrated history detailing the changing face of mental health care over the centuries.

To order a copy, contact the Society’s Publications Officer.