• bluGill
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    41 year ago

    The sanitoriums were closed for good reason. Bad as homelessness is, it is better than the abuse of sanitoriums.

    Not a sanitorium, but i know someone who was in an orphanage, they beat kids with a metal chimney brush if they put their head on the pillow when they slept. This earned them lots of awards for how nice all the kids beds were. Sanitoriums were reportable just as bad, but I don’t have such close accounts.

    • girlfreddy
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      51 year ago

      @bluGill @TheTango @Peruvian_Skies @trias10

      The sanatoriums were horrendous and closed by both Canadian and American gov’ts in the late 60’s - early 70’s for good reason. The problem was the gov’ts didn’t put programs in place to help those people live outside the walls … essentially the same thing they do with prisoners now.

      Guaranteed incomes, stable housing and support networks would clear up many of the “issues”, but too many whine about their tax dollars being spent on people in need.