Gheel, a town in Belgium, situated on a fertile spot in the midst of the sandy plain called the Campine, 26 m. SE. of Antwerp; it has been for centuries celebrated as an asylum for the insane, who (about 1300) are now boarded out among the peasants; these cottage asylums are under government control, and the board of the patients in most cases is guaranteed.
Population (circa 1900) given as 12,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ghazni * Ghent