article_snippet.sent: There are also reports of prevalent dysentery and syphilis.
article_snippet.sent: Dysentery and syphilis were said to have been commonplace at the now run down asylum (as pictured in 1940 right) where suicide cages were erected in the stairwells after a female patient threw a female patient off the fourth floor .
article_snippet.sent: Suicide cages were erected in the stairwells after a female patient threw a female patient off the fourth floor and landed near the reception.
article_snippet.sent: Many of them were employed day and night.
article_snippet.sent: The evil of this system was perpetuated by high windows protected by iron guards and strongly guarded fireplaces which gave a gloomy prison like aspect to the interior of the building. '
article_snippet.sent: Above all it was evident that the system adopted had a natural and inevitable tendency to demoralise if not to brutalize the attendants.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Dysentery and syphilis said to be widespread, while patients were restrained in chairs and by 'iron handcuffs'
  A developer is now looking to transform the haunting structure by building a block of apartments in iron handcuffs'
  A developer place .