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From: "Neil & Jan Hearn" <>
Subject: Re: [Ess] [MDX] Asylum
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:02:03 +1100
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Any ideas about who I can contact to try and find her hospital record?

Thanks again, everyone, for your help
Jan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anne Peat" <>
To: "Roger Partridge" <>
Cc: "Neil & Jan Hearn" <>; <>;
<>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Ess] [MDX] Asylum


> The implications are that the asylum in Colchester was a mental hospital.
>
> Anne
> On 28 Oct 2008, at 23:05, Roger Partridge wrote:
>
>> G'day Jan !
>>
>> I have no detailed medical knowledge whatsoever ! - but if you put
>> "Mitral
>> Disease" into Google you will get over 9,000 hits ! - I only looked
>> at the 10
>> on the first page, but I think you will find it is a heart disease
>> connected with
>> the mitral valve ! I don't think there is any mental illness
>> implied here at all;
>> I think the word 'Asylum' is being used in an old sense of a hospital
>> or place
>> to rest and recover ?? Perhaps any Listers with medical knowledge may
>> care
>> to comment on my "diagnosis" ?
>>
>> Best Wishes ! Roger.
>> ---------------------
>> On 28 Oct 2008, at 20:57, Neil & Jan Hearn wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> Thanks for all the helpful replies. The 1914 death
>>> certificate
>>> states she died at "Essex Colchester Asylum" but gives her cause of
>>> death as
>>> Mitral Disease with no reference to any mental illness.
>>>
>>> Jan
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Robert Hina" <>
>>> To: <>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:00 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [MDX] Asylum
>>>
>>>
>>>> In 1953 the hospital was re-named Warley Hospital but the major
>>>> part of it
>>>> was closed down and sold
>>>> to property developers around 2000.
>>>> The site below gives one view on the development, but googling
>>>> 'Warley'
>>>> will give quite a few others.
>>>> boredtown.co.uk/warley.html
>>>>
>>>> My father was treated there from the mid-forties to mid-fifties
>>>> and we
>>>> used to go back to see some of his
>>>> mates, mainly those who had not recovered psychologically from their
>>>> war-time service/experiences.
>>>> I believe that we used to go to E-block on these occasions. It was
>>>> very
>>>> disconcerting to find that E-block
>>>> had been replaced by an almost disney-esque housing development. I
>>>> think
>>>> about a quarter of the old site
>>>> has housing built on it but it still had some of the broad vistas
>>>> down the
>>>> hill that I remember from my
>>>> childhood. There is still a series of operating NHS units at the
>>>> top of
>>>> the site, but the old Victorian Gothic
>>>> core is being converted into flats and offices as far as I
>>>> understand.
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>>> From: Margaret Grundy <>
>>>> To:
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, 28 October, 2008 5:57:34 PM
>>>> Subject: [MDX] Asylum
>>>>
>>>> The Essex County Asylum is not the same as Severalls Colchester.
>>>>
>>>> The Essex County Insane Asylum was in Brentwood Essex and opened
>>>> in 1853
>>>> with 450 patients.It changed to the Brentwood Mental Hospital in
>>>> 1920.It
>>>> is
>>>> now a park as far as I can tell.
>>>> There is more on the web if you look for either hospitals.
>>>>
>>>> Margaret
>>>>
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