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The new administration renamed the hospital to London County Council Asylum with provision for Croydon, dedicating one eighth of the beds to Croydon patients until the opening of Croydon Mental Hospital in 1903. Following the Mental Treatment Act 1930 the hospital was renamed to Cane Hill Mental Hospital.
Nov 20, 2019 · Cane Hill Hospital, as it was renamed in 1930, saw a number of mentally ill ex-servicemen during the first and second World Wars, and a train station was even built to shuttle staff, patients and visitors between the asylum and central London.
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This local psychiatric hospital opened in 1882, as the Third Surrey County Lunatic Asylum (in addition to Brookwood Hospital and Springfield Hospital, Wandsworth). A century later, the 2,000 patient hospital was almost empty, and all but the secure unit was closed in 1991.
Apr 12, 2020 · In 1930 the Asylum was renamed Cane Hill Mental Hospital, when the Mental Health Act of that year expunged the term 'asylum' from official use. In 1936 the Hospital had 386 male and 1,316 female patients. In 1937 the numbers had increased to 890 males and 1,355 females.
In 1981 nearly 6,000 bodies were exhumed from the cemetery of Cane Hill Hospital, formerly the 3rd Surrey County Lunatic Asylum. They were cremated and their ashes scattered at Croydon (Mitcham Road) Cemetery.
Cane Hill Asylum, later Cane Hill Mental Hospital, was opened in December 1883 by the Justices of the County of Surrey. Surrey already possessed two asylums, at Wandsworth and Brookwood, and Cane Hill was intended to alleviate the shortage of spaces which was particularly being felt in several of the inner London Boroughs and by Richmond ...
Hospital Name: Cane Hill Hospital. Previous Names: Third Surrey County Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Cane Hill Asylum, Cane Hill Mental Hospital. Location: Brighton Road, Coulsdon, Surrey. Principal Architect: Charles Henry Howell. Layout: Radial Pavilion.
