Tooting Bec Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | Tooting Bec, London, England |
Coordinates | 51°25′51″N 0°09′05″W / 51.4307°N 0.1514°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHS |
Type | Specialist |
Services | |
Emergency department | N/A |
Speciality | Psychiatric Hospital |
History | |
Opened | 1903 |
Closed | 1995 |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
Tooting Bec Hospital was a mental facility in Tooting Bec, London, England.
History
This facility was one of the establishments commissioned by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to deal with chronic cases.[1] The hospital, which was designed by Arthur and Christopher Harston using a dual pavilion layout, opened as the Tooting Bec Asylum in January 1903.[1] It became Tooting Bec Mental Hospital in 1924 and, after suffering some bomb damage during the Second World War, it joined the National Health Service as Tooting Bec Hospital in 1948.[2] After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in July 1995.[1] The buildings were subsequently demolished and the site redeveloped by Fairview Homes for residential use as "Heritage Park".[3]
References
- ^ a b c "Tooting Bec Hospital". County Asylums. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ^ "Tooting Bec Hospital, London". National Archives. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ^ "Tooting Bec". Hidden London. Retrieved 20 April 2019.