{"id":46,"date":"2012-08-01T17:27:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T17:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2022-06-01T21:27:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T21:27:16","slug":"asylums","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/sites\/asylums","title":{"rendered":"The Victorian Asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Overview<\/h2>\r\n
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, there were only eight pauper Asylum throughout the British Isles, and there care was paid for by charitable bodies.\u00a0 The rest of the country saw their Lunatics being cared for in either the Poor Law Workhouses,\u00a0 or within private ‘Madhouses’ that were licensed under the 1774 Madhouse Act.\u00a0 This often led to the miss-treatment of many lunatics as there was little understanding of their condition and due to over-crowding, it was not uncommon for lunatics to be shackled is these early madhouses.\u00a0 In 1808 the first County Asylum act was passed, with a second one being passed in 1845, which made the construction of the Victorian Asylum compulsory for all Counties.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Victorian Asylums were built to serve as a tranquil retreat for people within the county population who could not afford treatment for themselves.\u00a0 Their purpose served as a advantage for both the local population and the patients, it provided safety for both parties as the two were kept seperate and offered a large means of employment for the local population.\u00a0 The Hospitals started off serving a small population of patients, typically below five hundred patients, but as time progressed and the population grew, the Asylum were designed or extended to house populations of over two thousands patients.\u00a0 The largest Asylum, Whittingham, had nearly 3000 patients in 1949.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The majority of the Victorian Asylums were built between 1811 and 1914, with mental deficiency colonies being built after 1914.\u00a0 At the time of WW1, there was approximately 110,000 people within the system and where the backbone of the Countries mental health care system.\u00a0 Nearly a century later, this number had decreased significantly with many of the hospitals using less than 50% of their beds; with the Mental Health Act passed 1983, and the care in the Community Act passed 1990, many of these aging institutions closed down.\u00a0 By the turn of the new millennium, nearly 200 years since the first County Asylum Act was passed, less than 20 Asylum remained open to Mental Health Services.\u00a0 Ten years later, this number had been decreased significantly.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Purpose of this section is to document the current condition of these of the Victorian Asylum Sites, and where possible, supply a history of the building.\u00a0 The authors of these pages will try to remain impartial into the views of the Asylum system and the treatment that was used within their walls; it will however attempt to cover the topic as accurately as possible.\u00a0 Please note that there are certain terms used throughout these pages that by today’s standards are incorrect, please note that they have only been used in their historical context, please do not contact the website if you are offended by any of these terms.<\/p>\r\n

Further information<\/h2>\r\n
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History of the Asylum<\/a><\/h3>\"History<\/a><\/div>

The Padded Cell<\/a><\/h3>\"The<\/a><\/div>

Asylum Architecture<\/a><\/h3>\"Asylum<\/a><\/div>

The Asylums List<\/a><\/h3>\"The<\/a><\/div><\/div>\r\n

Visited Asylums<\/h2>\r\n
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Google Maps UK Asylum Locations<\/a><\/h3>\"Google<\/a>
UK asylums location depicted on Google Maps.<\/div>

Read more ...<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n

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Overview At the beginning of the nineteenth century, there were only eight pauper Asylum throughout the British Isles, and there care was paid for by charitable bodies.\u00a0 The rest of the country saw their Lunatics being cared for in either the Poor Law Workhouses,\u00a0 or within private ‘Madhouses’ that were licensed under the 1774 Madhouse … <\/p>\n

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