Tooting Bec Hospital

Tooting Bec Hospital
Tooting Bec Hospital
Shown in Wandsworth
Geography
Location	Tooting Bec, London, England
Coordinates	51°25′51″N 0°09′05″W / 51.4307°N 0.1514°W / 51.4307; -0.1514Coordinates: 51°25′51″N 0°09′05″W / 51.4307°N 0.1514°W / 51.4307; -0.1514
Organisation
Care system	NHS
Type	Specialist
Services
Emergency department	N/A
Speciality	Psychiatric Hospital
History
Opened	1903
Closed	1995
Links
Lists	Hospitals in England

Tooting Bec Hospital was a mental facility in Tooting Bec, London, England.

History[]

This facility was one of the establishments commissioned by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to deal with chronic cases.^[1] The hospital, which was designed by Arthur and Christopher Harston using a dual pavilion layout, opened as the Tooting Bec Asylum in January 1903.^[1] It became Tooting Bec Mental Hospital in 1924 and, after suffering some bomb damage during the Second World War, it joined the National Health Service as Tooting Bec Hospital in 1948.^[2] After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in July 1995.^[1] The buildings were subsequently demolished and the site redeveloped by Fairview Homes for residential use as "Heritage Park".^[3]

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