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Entry TypeCorporate
Corporate NameKingsway Hospital
Alternative Form of NameDerby Borough Lunatic Asylum (1888-?)
PlaceDerby
Epithetmental health hospital, former Victorian lunatic asylum
Dates1888-
HistoryDerby Borough Asylum opened in 1888, with 27 patients, housed in a building designed by Hull architect Benjamin S Jacobs. It later became known as Kingsway Hospital, and was taken over by the National Health Service in 1948.
Other InformationCounties had been given permissive powers to build asylums for pauper lunatics in 1808 and this was made compulsory in 1853. Responsibility for mental health and other hospital services transferred to regional hospital boards under the National Health Service Act.
Authorised Form of NameDerby; Kingsway Hospital; 1888-; mental health hospital, former Victorian lunatic asylum

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