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Beginners => Family History Beginners Board => Topic started by: Sharonwoodhead on Monday 29 December 14 17:16 GMT (UK)
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My husbands mother was a patient here on and off in the 60's and 70's and we're looking for more information about the place generally , or info how we can find out about her illness and treatment thanx
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Welcome to the boards, Sharon
This could be a useful discussion:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=563935.0
But also, if I had been a patient there, would I like my treatment to be made available to others on request?
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As it was his mother I hope he can get info. X I hope the treatment wasn't as bad as he's possibly imaging x
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I was a patient in Central hospital, Hatton, from 1966 to 1971.
Can I be of help?
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My grandmother was a patient there in the early 1960s. She had what we now call Alzeimers. I remember going to visit her every Sunday afternoon. (I was 12 years at the time). The grounds were lovely, I remember a cricket pitch out the front but that was where the loveliness ended. My grandmother was on an upper floor which was accessed by cold concrete stairs. A smell of urine was everywhere. There were two very large rooms, a room for day and one for sleeping. There was no comfortable seating just chairs and tables. In the dormitory the beds were close together with no privacy.
As a teenager I wasn't told much about the treatment but I remember one friend of my mother who was a patient at the same time being put into an enforced sleep for two weeks and also electric shock treatment to treat her depression.
Thank goodness we now treat our mental health patients with more understanding. Although in the light of recent news maybe we don't.
Thornwood
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The records appear to be held at Warwickshire Record Office.he should contact them and see if they would be able to release his mother's records to him. I'm assuming his mother is dead.