Tooting Bec Hospital was a mental facility in Tooting Bec, London, England.

History

This facility was one of the establishments commissioned by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to deal with chronic cases.[1] The hospital, which was designed by Arthur and Christopher Harston using a dual pavilion layout, opened as the Tooting Bec Asylum in January 1903.[1] It became Tooting Bec Mental Hospital in 1924 and, after suffering some bomb damage during the Second World War, it joined the National Health Service as Tooting Bec Hospital in 1948.[2] After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in July 1995.[1] The buildings were subsequently demolished and the site redeveloped by Fairview Homes for residential use as "Heritage Park".[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Tooting Bec Hospital". County Asylums. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  2. ^ "Tooting Bec Hospital, London". National Archives. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  3. ^ "Tooting Bec". Hidden London. Retrieved 20 April 2019.