Tooting Bec Asylum, Surrey
A woman pushes a pram at the entrance to the Tooting Bec Asylum at Tooting Graveney, erected in 1899-1903 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board. It provided care for senile patients, infirm epileptics, and others requiring exceptional individual attention'. In 1924 it was renamed Tooting Bec Mental Hospital, and then later became Tooting Bec Hospital
Picture No
10576656
Media ID
47566347
Size
5035px x 3143px
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Credit
Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Unattributed photograph on a postcard published by The Card House
Date
Date unknown
