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On January 1, 1873, Julia Clark, a lock-ward patient at the Royal Portsmouth Hospital, complained “of the quality of the soup and potatoes given [inmates] for their dinner” and began to throw the plates and tableware about. The resident matron admitted that the soup was watery and managed to quiet the room. The next day, further disturbances broke out in the same ward, and three women were locked in dark cells. That night, the rioting erupted anew; when it had ended two days later, the police had arrested seven women and eight others had been locked in confinement cells.
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On January 1, 1873, Julia Clark, a lock-ward patient at the Royal Portsmouth Hospital, complained “of the quality of the soup and potatoes given [inmates] for their dinner” and began to throw the plates and tableware about. The resident matron admitted that the soup was watery and managed to quiet the room. The next day, further disturbances broke out in the same ward, and three women were locked in dark cells. That night, the rioting erupted anew; when it had ended two days later, the police had arrested seven women and eight others had been locked in confinement cells.
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