Garlands Hospital
Hospital in Cumbria, England
54°52′36″N 2°53′09″W / 54.8766°N 2.8858°W / 54.8766; -2.8858Garlands Hospital was a mental health facility at Carleton near Carlisle in Cumbria, England.
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
- ^ a b c d "Garlands Hospital". County Asylums. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ "Garlands Hospital, Carlisle (Accommodation)". Hansard. 2 May 1955. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
