Asylum - South Weald

[JacobeaM]

On searching for dates for my ancestor Charlotte Oliver (nee Lowen), I've come across on entry on the Crow Lane Index that appears to be her internment. If it is her, there a note beside it that states she was removed from the "Asylum South Weald". She was 83 years old, so I'm guessing she was admitted, whether by her family or by force, for dementia or some similar age related illness.   

Does anyone know if the asylum at South Weald deal with dementia sufferers? Also, was this place synonymous with Warley Hospital? The quick bit of research I've done says it was "approached from the Warley Road".

Thanks 

 

[keldon]

Yes, it would be Warley Hospital. It is in South Weald Parish as you will see from this map.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/image.aspx?compid=63843&filename=fig7.gif&pubid=534
Depending on the date you are talking about, I would say that certainly dementia would have been dealt with in an ayslum.

[keldon]

In fact, just before the hospital closed they were still dealing with dementia patients.
"The Team for the Assessment of Psychiatric Services will now begin an 18-month study of patients with dementia at Warley Hospital in Essex."
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2000/05/22/6588/Study-shows-care-in-the-community-is-working.htm

[JacobeaM]

Cheers Keldon I thought it might be. I passed through through the area recently and the little hospital that remains of the great complex now goes by the name "Mascalls Park", presumably because "Warley Hospital" has got negative connotations.

She, if I do have the right Charlotte Oliver (circumstantial evidence suggests I do), was interred in mid 1901. I'm surprised she wasn't buried at the hospital, since her family didn't have much money.