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But the Good Shepherds insisted on long-term committals, in some cases for life, which both defeated the purpose of reform and limited the number of women who could be rescued. 20) At a time when asylum budgets were increasingly restricted, there were, as one doctor admitted, "both economic and humanitarian reasons to facilitate such admissions"(21): at least half of all 'voluntary' committals were paying patients, at a rate of nearly 3 francs per day. Such private committals constituted a significant proportion of the prison's inhabitants into the eighteenth century. |
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