Selina Baiss, from Shepton Mallet, was said to be "demented, incoherent and noisy" and had been an asylum ... feed the patients up, they would learn occupations, have music therapy, entertainment.

North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum ... therapy (ECT) was carried out only with anaesthetic - but not always. "When they first started giving ECT in 1942 the patients were conscious," he said.