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floors, graffiti on walls, urine stains around a toilet and stains from bodily fluids on the bottom of a hoist chair. The report, combined with the collapse of part of the ceiling onto the head of a patient the same year saw the closure plan brought forward and the last ward closed the following year.
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governance. Although the hospital lacked administrative offices, a chapel, recreation hall and laundry, facilities were soon improvised using a mixture of existing buildings and prefabricated structures. During this period, Barrow gained a reputation as a progressive hospital in the treatment of
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in 2003 found that on the issue of the hospital's closure, opinion among patients was divided with groups of patients having strong feelings both for and against. In 2005, a national survey of hospital cleanliness named Barrow as the dirtiest in
Britain after inspectors found cigarette burns on
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who documented its steady decay. In 2008, planning permission was granted build 18 luxury homes and 405,000 square feet (37,600 m) of office space on the southern part of the site. The following year saw the
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and were situated so as to give a sense of community and privacy as well as to take advantage of the wooded surroundings which were retained and enhanced by tree-thinning and landscaping.
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mental illness, accepting voluntary admissions and hosting clinical conferences for doctors from across the United
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