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Entry Type	Corporate
Corporate Name	Kingsway Hospital
Alternative Form of Name	Derby Borough Lunatic Asylum (1888-?)
Place	Derby
Epithet	mental health hospital, former Victorian lunatic asylum
Dates	1888-
History	Derby 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 Information	Counties 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 Name	Derby; Kingsway Hospital; 1888-; mental health hospital, former Victorian lunatic asylum

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