Stoneyetts Hospital
| Stoneyetts Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Established | 1910 |
| Opened | 1913 |
| Closed | 1992 |
| Current Status | Closed |
| Building Style | Cottage Plan |
| Location | Moodiesburn, North Lanarkshire |
| Peak Patient Population | 1,620 in 1991 |
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History
Stoneyetts Hospital was built by Glasgow Parish Council and opened in 1913. It was a certified institution for mentally deficient people under the Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act of 1913. Stoneyetts became seriously overcrowded and arrangements were made with Falkirk Parish Council for patients to be cared for at Blinkbonny Home. Lennox Castle Hospital was built by Glasgow Corporation, also as a hospital for mentally deficient people. It had 1,200 beds when it opened in 1936 and was the largest mental deficiency hospital in Britain: a substantial number of patients were transferred from Stoneyetts to Lennox Castle. During the Second World War a large part of the hospital was requisitioned under the Emergency Hospital Scheme.
Between 1941 and 1943, a 120 bed maternity unit was established as a "temporary" measure: this finally closed in 1964. In the early 1970s the bed complement reached a peak at 1,620, by 1991 this had fallen to 830. When the National Health Service was formed in 1948 the Board of Management for Lennox Castle and Associated Institutions was created to manage Lennox Castle Hospital, Stoneyetts Hospital and Waverley Park Home. In 1974 they were placed in the Northern District of the Greater Glasgow Health Board. Stoneyetts Hospital closed in 1992.
