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Proposed Lunatic Asylum for Borough of Southampton
The County Asylum getting more crowded, pauper lunatics from Southampton and Portsmouth have been removed from it, and the lunatic commissioners have
intimated to the Town Council of Southampton that they will require the borough to erect an asylum of its own, or conjointly with Portsmouth. The estimated cost
of the new asylum is stated at £16,000.
Source: The Builder 1868 Vol XXVI 28th March 1868 p.235
Submitted by Alan Longbottom
Borough of Portsmouth Asylum
The Asylum was called the Borough of Portsmouth Asylum, completed and
took in its first patient in 1878. The Asylum is now St. James Hospital, located in Locksway Road which was formerly
called Asylum Road.
Administrative, General and Admission & Discharge records commence from 1879
and are held at Portsmouth City Records Office.
Records
Hampshire Record Office
Sussex Street,
Winchester
SO23 8TH
Tel: 01962 846154
http://www.hants.gov.uk/record-office/index.html
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