Near Plympton, handsome early eighteenth century country house bought in1835by Dr Charles Aldridge for use as a private lunatic asylum. Censured in the 1844 Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy for using excessive degree of restraint. In 1844 it had 17 private and 66 pauper patients, the latt...
Stone House Hospital, near Dartford in Kent, built as the City of London Pauper Lunatic Asylum and opened in 1866. Extract from the 2nd-edition OS Map revised in 1895, reproduced by permission of the National Library of Scotland The Corporation of London dragged its heels over building a paup...
Footnote 53 In the Bombay presidency the peons also functioned as a detective force and were often selected from the Indian policemen; their duties were to arrest all strange and suspicious women found in or near European regiments (Wald 2014:61; Ballhatchet 1980:16). The lock system did ...
my mother called me and said that terrible things had happened near the hospital. A schoolchild had been killed at the very same bus stop where I used to wait for the bus, often alone. The person who did it was not found immediately, and the whole hospital was afraid. Then it turned ...
This house was presumably on the site of present-day Togo Place, just off Dempster Road near the corner with Ann Street. It only had space for six patients, but in 1925 plans were approved to build a single-storey extension that would provide a proper maternity ward with 18 beds, and ...
Digby Hospital, formerly the Exeter Lunatic Asylum. The small farm complex is on the east near to the London & South Western Railway line. The buildings have been converted to housing as part of the re-development of the hospital and its site for housing. ...
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and although last used about 1920 it was still being maintained in 1943. The Truro hospital was near the centre of the town and has not survived. Perhaps because the provision in the county was so small the Truro workhouse was converted into a 110-bed isolation hospital in 1940, mainly for...
and although last used about 1920 it was still being maintained in 1943. The Truro hospital was near the centre of the town and has not survived. Perhaps because the provision in the county was so small the Truro workhouse was converted into a 110-bed isolation hospital in 1940, mainly for...