Prestwich Hospital
Prestwich Hospital was built as an asylum at Prestwich in 1851, as the second Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum. By 1900 it had grown into the largest asylum in Europe.[1]
The National Asylum Workers' Union organised a strike of 200 employees at the hospital in 1918. [2]
It is now run by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
See also
- Lancaster Moor Hospital, the first Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum
- Rainhill Hospital, the third Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum
- Whittingham Hospital, the fourth Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum
References
- ↑ "The Prestwich Asylum". Archives +. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
- ↑ Abel-Smith, Brian (1960). A History of the Nursing Profession. London: Heinemann. p. 132.
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