- Built in 1893 in 8 weeks. Meant to hold 600 low grade mentally deficient patients.
- Run by the Metropolitan Asylums Board ,the hospital was based in Tooting Grove SW17.
- Annual cost per head £40.
- Fountain Hospital carried out research into the causes and prevention of mental diseases. This was done under the direction of the Medical Officer of Health.
- The hospital housed children over 3 years old. Girls stayed until 16 but boys over 9 went to Caterham.
- Now the site is occupied by St. George’s Hospital a large university and medical institution
- 1929 administration transferred to London County Council from MAB
- Was damaged in the1940 Blitz
- Osborne House in Hastings was constructed as a holiday home.
- Additional Units were built for blind children with mental disabilities in Reigate
- South Side House was built in Streatham for adults to train for industrial work with the aim of them returning to the community
- The hospital was transferred to Queen Mary’s hospital in Carshalton in Surrey in 1944 after
- A flying bomb (V1) destroyed a quarter of the site
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