Dr Charles Lockhart Robertson
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Dr Charles Lockhart Robertson pioneered the humane treatment of mental illness at the Sussex County ‘Lunatic Asylum’. In 1861 he introduced a Turkish bath there which was specially designed by David Urquhart.
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Sussex District Lunatic Asylum, Hayward's Heath
Women and the Victorian Turkish bath. Part 7: the bath and women's health
Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
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