Rainhill Hospital
Rainhill Hospital was a very large psychiatric unit in Rainhill, Merseyside, England.
It was known as the Lancashire County Asylum from 1851 to 1861, the County Lunatic Asylum, Rainhill (c.1861 - 1923), the County Mental Hospital, Rainhill (1923 - c.1948), Rainhill Mental Hospital and Rainhill Hospital until it closed in 1991.[1] In 1936 there were 3,000 inmates, and it was said to be the largest mental hospital in Europe.
It was the site of the Great Porridge Strike on 6 April 1913 when the staff, members of the National Asylum Workers' Union, went on strike when meat was replaced by oatmeal porridge.[2]
See also
- Lancaster Moor Hospital, the first Lancashire County Asylum
- Whittingham Hospital, the fourth Lancashire County Asylum
References
- ↑ "Details: Rainhill Hospital, Prescot". National Archives. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
- ↑ "The South London Women’s Hospital Occupation 1984-85". Past tense. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
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