On May 6, 1946, Life magazine published "Bedlam 1946," an exposé of two state ... undermanned mental "hospital" known as the "Dungeon," one can still read, after nine years, the five-word ...

Although Bethlem Royal Hospital (its official title, although it was more commonly known as Bedlam) was supposed to be the foremost psychiatric institution in Britain, the inspectors thought it had ...