Manor Hospital, Epsom: Difference between revisions

===Wartime use===

inIn 1916, the asylum was requisitioned by the Army Council and became the Manor War Hospital. All mental patients were transferred to other institutions and the hospital used to treat soldiers wounded in the [[First World War]].<ref name="lost" />

===Mental handicap hospital===

After [[West Park Asylum|West Park Hospital]] opened in 1921, the hospital was redesignated as a Certified Institution for [[Mental retardation|Mental Defectives]]. The new patients continued to provide labour in the workshops making brushes, shoes, baskets and clothing and learning carpentry and sewing.<ref name="lost" />

In the 1930s Horton Lodge, a large [[Georgian era]] mansion on Christchurch Road, was purchased by the LCC as an annexe for the Manor and West Park Hospitals. It was renamed Hollywood Lodge, to avoid confusion with Horton Hospital.<ref name="derelict">{{cite web |url=http://derelictmisc.org.uk/hollywood.html |title=Hollywood Lodge |publisher=Derelict Miscellany|accessdate=2012-01-21 January 2012}}</ref> The hospital joined the [[National Health Service]] in 1948, and continued to care for moderately mentally handicapped young adults and disturbed adolescents. The hospital gained an international reputation for industrial and behavioural therapy and by 1951 it had 1417 beds.<ref name="lost" />

In 1971 there were 1067 beds, 25 of which were in locked wards. By this time the state of the pavilions was causing concern: despite having been built with a life expectancy of 15 years, they were still in use 70 years later. Subsequently, the Hospitalhospital was redeveloped with large single-storey redbrick bungalows units with flat roofs replacing the old huts. In 1973 the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in [[Banstead]] Woods, formerly a children's hospital, became a satellite of the Hospitalhospital. The Hospitalhospital by this time had 1042 beds, including those in Hollywood Lodge, Aldingbourne House (a 60-bed unit near [[Chichester]] where patients would be sent for seaside holidays) and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.<ref name="lost" />

===Decline and redevelopment===

Following the introduction of [[Care in the Community]], the hospital was gradually reduced in size as patients were moved into alternative accommodation: by 1990 only 454 beds remained.<ref name="lost"/> The hospital closed in 1996 although the garden centre and Pine Lodge, a community-based day centre for adults with learning disabilities remained open.<ref name="lost"/>