Josef Hassid
Between January 1947 and June 1952, 180 people died as a result of leucotomies in England and Wales. W S Maclay, the President of the Section of Psychiatry of the Royal Society of Medicine, said: "the total is considerable when one thinks in terms of individuals and not of statistics and percentages".
One of those individuals was Josef Hassid, the Polish violinist, who died after a leucotomy in Long Grove Hospital, Epsom, England. He was 26 years old.
Hassid had come to London with his father in 1938 and was prevented from returning to Poland by the outbreak of World War II. In London he gave recitals and concert performances and made recordings for HMV. But in 1941 he had a nervous breakdown and was admitted to St Andrew's Hospital, Northampton, where he was given insulin coma therapy and electroconvulsive therapy. After a short period out of hospital he was detained in Long Grove Hospital which had a wing for Polish civilians, and remained there until his death.
One of those individuals was Josef Hassid, the Polish violinist, who died after a leucotomy in Long Grove Hospital, Epsom, England. He was 26 years old.
Hassid had come to London with his father in 1938 and was prevented from returning to Poland by the outbreak of World War II. In London he gave recitals and concert performances and made recordings for HMV. But in 1941 he had a nervous breakdown and was admitted to St Andrew's Hospital, Northampton, where he was given insulin coma therapy and electroconvulsive therapy. After a short period out of hospital he was detained in Long Grove Hospital which had a wing for Polish civilians, and remained there until his death.
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