Prestwich Hospital




Hospital in Greater Manchester, England











































Prestwich Hospital
Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Prestwich Hospital



Prestwich Hospital is located in Greater Manchester
Prestwich Hospital


Shown in Greater Manchester

Geography
Location
Prestwich, Greater Manchester, England
Coordinates
53°32′11″N 2°17′24″W / 53.5365°N 2.2899°W / 53.5365; -2.2899Coordinates: 53°32′11″N 2°17′24″W / 53.5365°N 2.2899°W / 53.5365; -2.2899
Organisation
Care system NHS
Hospital type Psychiatric
Services
Emergency department No
History
Founded 1851
Links
Website www.gmmh.nhs.uk
Lists Hospitals in England

Prestwich Hospital is a mental health facility at Prestwich in Greater Manchester. There is still a low secure unit on site managed by the Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 See also


  • 3 References


  • 4 External links





History


The site was selected at Prestwich Woods and acquired from Oswald Milne, a solicitor, in 1847.[1] The hospital was designed by Isaac Holden, a Manchester architect.[2] It was built of red brick with stone quoin decoration and officially opened, with 350 patients, as the Second Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum in January 1851.[1] Two extra wards were completed in 1864 and an annex was built in 1883.[1]


By 1903 it was accommodating 3,135 patients making it the largest asylum in Europe.[3] Dr Montagu Lomax, assistant medical officer at the hospital between 1917 and 1919, exposed the inhuman, custodial and antitherapeutic practices there in a book[4] which led to a Royal Commission, increased central control and ultimately the Mental Treatment Act 1930.[5][6] The National Asylum Workers' Union organised a strike of 200 employees at the hospital in 1918.[7]


The facility was renamed the Prestwich Mental Hospital in 1923.[2] It was used for war casualties during the Second World War and then joined the National Health Service in 1948.[2]


Much of what Dr Lomax had described much earlier could still be seen in parts of Prestwich Hospital in the 1960s and 1970s.[8][9] However, following the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed to long-term patients in 1996.[2] There is still a low secure unit on site managed by the Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.[10]



See also




  • Lancaster Moor Hospital, the first Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum


  • Rainhill Hospital, the third Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum


  • Whittingham Hospital, the fourth Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum



References





  1. ^ abc "Prestwich Hospital". Manchester City Council. Retrieved 14 October 2018..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ abcd "Prestwich". County Asylums. Retrieved 14 October 2018.


  3. ^ "The Prestwich Asylum". Archives +. Retrieved 11 January 2017.


  4. ^ Montagu Lomax, The Experiences of an Asylum Doctor London: George Allen & Unwin 1921


  5. ^ BA Towers The management and politics of a public expose: the Prestwich Inquiry 1922 J Social Policy (1984) 13: 41–61


  6. ^ TW Harding, "Not worth powder and shot." A reappraisal of Montagu Lomax's contribution to mental health reform British Journal of Psychiatry (1990) 156: 180–187


  7. ^ Abel-Smith, Brian (1960). A History of the Nursing Profession. London: Heinemann. p. 132.


  8. ^ J Hopton Daily life in a 20th century psychiatric hospital: an oral history of Prestwich Hospital Int Hist Nurs J (1997) 2: 27–39


  9. ^ J Hopton Prestwich Hospital in the twentieth century: a case study of slow and uneven progress in the development of psychiatric care History of Psychiatry (1999) 10: 349–369


  10. ^ "Low secure services". Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 14 October 2018.




External links


  • Official site



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