Typhoid carriers went insane after ‘detention for life in asylum’

Many British people were locked up for life at a mental hospital because they were typhoid carriers, it was reported yesterday.

At least 43 women were detained at Long Grove asylum in Epsom, Surrey, between 1907 and the facility’s closure in 1992.

Nursing staff told a BBC investigation that some of the women may have been sane when they were admitted but went mad because of their incarceration.