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and Willie Swinton Skinner, was built at a cost of £200,000 and opened as the Croydon Mental Hospital on 26 June 1903. This was reputedly the first institution to be called a 'mental hospital' and never appears officially to have been called an asylum. The hospital was extended in the early 20th
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water tower was retained, the remainder of the buildings were demolished to make way for an up-market housing estate known as Greatpark.
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with the instrument, it tended to catch small blood vessels causing cerebral haemorrhaging, resulting in the deaths of two patients.
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The hospital also had a specialist Regional unit to treat patients suffering from alcohol dependency, Pinel House.
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century with the addition of a nurses' home, two further blocks for female patients and four villas.
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which subsequently became the primary provider of mental health care to residents of
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in 1983, the hospital went into a period of decline and eventually closed in 1999.
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The hospital went on to become Warlingham Park Hospital in 1937 and joined the
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W McKissock 1943 The technique of pre-frontal leucotomy.
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Water tower, the only remaining structure in the complex
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Demolition of the hospital began in 2000. Although the
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J McGregor and J Crumbie 1942 Prefrontal leucotomy.
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Warlingham Park Hospital is located in Surrey
Warlingham
Surrey
Coordinates
51°19′05″N 0°01′52″W / 51.31805°N 0.03117°W / 51.31805; -0.03117
Care system
NHS
Type
Specialist
Hospitals in England
psychiatric hospital
Warlingham
Surrey
George Oatley

Leucotome
psychosurgery
leucotome
Wylie McKissock
leucotomies
National Health Service
Care in the Community
Bethlem Royal Hospital
Croydon
Bethlem Museum of the Mind
Grade II
listed
Healthcare in London

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