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Garlands Hospital

Garlands Hospital

Hospital in Cumbria, England

Garlands Hospital was a mental health facility at Carleton near Carlisle in Cumbria, England.

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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

  1. [1]
    "Garlands Hospital". County Asylums. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  2. [2]
    "Garlands Hospital, Carlisle (Accommodation)". Hansard. 2 May 1955. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
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