The Central Mental Hospital was built in 1852 and, because it has been carefully maintained and is in exactly the same state as when it was built, it is a listed building and cannot be altered. I do not know that this could be described as a great triumph for the State because within that hospital are some very ill people with serious psychiatric diseases who have no hope of improving in such a therapeutic environment. A total of 57 of them sleep on concrete plinths in single cells. I suppose they are not cages because they have walls, but there is no window except at roof level. There is no sanitation, so patients have to defecate and urinate into plastic buckets and slop out every morning. For people in the whole of their health this would be bad enough, but for those who are really ill it is utterly appalling.