The British Journal of Psychiatry (2002) 180: 189
© 2002 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Private patients at Dorset County Asylum
Researched by Henry Rollin, Emeritus Consultant Psychiatrist, Horton
Hospital, Epsom, Surrey
At a special meeting of the County Council for Dorset, on January 8th, the
proposal of the Visiting Committee to build, at a cost of about £40,000,
a detached house for one hundred private patients, was unanimously approved,
and the plans, which have been prepared by the architect, Mr. G. F. T. Hine,
gave satisfaction. Dorsetshire was the first county in England to take
advantage of Section CCLV of the Lunacy Act, 1890, by providing accommodation
of private patients in connection with the County Institution, and the results
of this further development of the private side of the institution will be
followed with interest.
REFERENCES
British Medical Journal, 18 January
1902.