Garlands Hospital
Garlands Hospital was a mental health facility at Carleton near Carlisle in Cumbria, England.
Garlands Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | Carleton near Carlisle, Cumbria, England |
Coordinates | 54.8766°N 2.8858°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHS |
Type | Specialist |
Services | |
Emergency department | N/A |
Speciality | Psychiatric Hospital |
History | |
Opened | 1862 |
Closed | 1999 |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
History
The hospital, which was designed by Thomas Worthington and John Augustus Cory using a Corridor Plan layout, opened as the Cumberland and Westmorland Lunatic Asylum in January 1862.[1] It joined the National Health Service as Garlands Hospital in 1948.[1] Concerns were raised in Parliament about the amount of overcrowding in the hospital in 1955.[2]
After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in March 1999.[1] The administration block was subsequently converted into apartments.[1]
References
- "Garlands Hospital". County Asylums. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- "Garlands Hospital, Carlisle (Accommodation)". Hansard. 2 May 1955. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
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