Catalogue description Maudsley Hospital

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Maudsley Hospital

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In 1907 the renowned psychiatrist Henry Maudsley offered the London County Council £30,000 to fund a new mental health hospital that would be responsible for early and acute cases rather than chronic cases, such as those housed in the county asylum system at the time. The Council agreed to provide half of the initial funding, and to pay the running costs of the hospital, which was also to have an outpatients department and pathology laboratory. When the building in Denmark Hill was completed in 1915, the Hospital was immediately requisitioned by the War Department, and only came back under the control of the LCC in 1923. When it finally opened to the public, it also had a children’s department, and, from 1924, a specialist teaching school. During the Second World War the Hospital staff decamped to two sites, Mill Hill School in North London and Belmont Hospital in Sutton, Surrey. In 1948 the Maudsley joined with Bethlem Royal Hospital and entered the NHS together as a joint hospital. The medical school became the Institute of Psychiatry, and, though it split away from the Hospital in 1997 to become a school of Kings College London, remains closely linked to the Maudsley. The Joint Hospital became the foundation for the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust formed in 1999, known as the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust from 2006.