| Prestwich Hospital | |
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| Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust | |
 Prestwich Hospital | |
  Shown in Greater Manchester | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Prestwich, Greater Manchester, England |
| Coordinates | 53°32′11″N2°17′24″W / 53.5365°N 2.2899°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Type | Psychiatric |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | No |
| History | |
| Opened | 1851 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
Prestwich Hospital is a mental health facility in Prestwich, Greater Manchester, England.
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] Montagu Lomax, assistant medical officer at the hospital between 1917 and 1919, exposed the inhuman, custodial and antitherapeutic practices there in his book The Experiences of an Asylum Doctor , which led to a Royal Commission, increased central control and ultimately the Mental Treatment Act 1930. [4] [5] The National Asylum Workers' Union organised a strike of 200 employees at the hospital in 1918. [6]
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. [7] [8] 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]
The hospital gave rise to the local saying "going to Prestwich" which means going mad. [9]
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