Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: St. Elizabeths Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Hampshire County Lunatic Asylum, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Central Hospital, Hatton, Sydney Children's Hospital, Geelong Hospital. Excerpt: Tredington Park (photo 2008) Central Hospital was a psychiatric hospital located in Hatton, Warwickshire, England . Building began in 1846 on a 42-acre (170,000 m ) site purchased from the Earl of Warwick and was completed in 1852, the first patients moving in on 30 June. It was originally named the Warwick County Lunatic Asylum and from 1930-1948 the Warwickshire County Mental Hospital. A classic Victorian asylum built on a grand scale in the gothic style it at one point housed 1,600 patients. Eventually gaining over 377 acres (1.53 km ) of land, the hospital patients provided most of their own food from three farms in the grounds and a spring supplied it with water. Many of the staff lived there too, it was more like a village than a hospital. It even had its own sports pitches, coffin maker and a chapel which was completed in 1862. Nevertheless it was, in the early days, a reasonably hard place to be treated by modern standards. Mentally ill patients were subjected to, amongst other things, electric shock therapy . It was later said that certain rooms were haunted by dead patients. However compared to contemporary poor house asylums and established public asylums like Bedlam, Central treated their patients quite kindly with parties and drama productions regularly held for, and by, patients who were allowed a lot of freedom within the hospital grounds. Central Hospital (photo 1890s) In 1933 the first voluntary admissions were allowed and outpatient clinics were opened in the neighbouring urban areas of Warwick, Leamington and Coventry . In 19...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hospitals Established in 1852: St. Elizabeths Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, Great Ormond Street Hospital. To get started finding Hospitals Established in 1852: St. Elizabeths Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, Great Ormond Street Hospital, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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52
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PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1155451678
Hospitals Established in 1852: St. Elizabeths Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, Great Ormond Street Hospital
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: St. Elizabeths Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Hampshire County Lunatic Asylum, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Central Hospital, Hatton, Sydney Children's Hospital, Geelong Hospital. Excerpt: Tredington Park (photo 2008) Central Hospital was a psychiatric hospital located in Hatton, Warwickshire, England . Building began in 1846 on a 42-acre (170,000 m ) site purchased from the Earl of Warwick and was completed in 1852, the first patients moving in on 30 June. It was originally named the Warwick County Lunatic Asylum and from 1930-1948 the Warwickshire County Mental Hospital. A classic Victorian asylum built on a grand scale in the gothic style it at one point housed 1,600 patients. Eventually gaining over 377 acres (1.53 km ) of land, the hospital patients provided most of their own food from three farms in the grounds and a spring supplied it with water. Many of the staff lived there too, it was more like a village than a hospital. It even had its own sports pitches, coffin maker and a chapel which was completed in 1862. Nevertheless it was, in the early days, a reasonably hard place to be treated by modern standards. Mentally ill patients were subjected to, amongst other things, electric shock therapy . It was later said that certain rooms were haunted by dead patients. However compared to contemporary poor house asylums and established public asylums like Bedlam, Central treated their patients quite kindly with parties and drama productions regularly held for, and by, patients who were allowed a lot of freedom within the hospital grounds. Central Hospital (photo 1890s) In 1933 the first voluntary admissions were allowed and outpatient clinics were opened in the neighbouring urban areas of Warwick, Leamington and Coventry . In 19...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hospitals Established in 1852: St. Elizabeths Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, Great Ormond Street Hospital. To get started finding Hospitals Established in 1852: St. Elizabeths Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, Great Ormond Street Hospital, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.