Tooting Bec Hospital

Tooting Bec Hospital was a mental facility in Tooting Bec, London, England.

Tooting Bec Hospital
Tooting Bec Hospital
Shown in Wandsworth
Geography
Location	Tooting Bec, London, England
Coordinates	51.4307°N 0.1514°W / 51.4307; -0.1514
Organisation
Care system	NHS
Type	Specialist
Services
Emergency department	N/A
Speciality	Psychiatric Hospital
History
Opened	1903
Closed	1995
Links
Lists	Hospitals in England

History

This facility was one of the establishments commissioned by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to deal with chronic cases.^[1] The hospital, which was designed by Arthur and Christopher Harston using a dual pavilion layout, opened as the Tooting Bec Asylum in January 1903.^[1] It became Tooting Bec Mental Hospital in 1924 and, after suffering some bomb damage during the Second World War, it joined the National Health Service as Tooting Bec Hospital in 1948.^[2] After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in July 1995.^[1] The buildings were subsequently demolished and the site redeveloped by Fairview Homes for residential use as "Heritage Park".^[3]