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|Body= By the mid 1800s the County Asylums Act and Lunacy Act had made it a requirement that [[Knowle Hospital|every United Kingdom county]] should build an asylum if they had not already done so, or should join with another neighbouring county to achieve the same goal. For the Hampshire asylum, a 100 acre site was located, known as Knowle Farm, close to Fareham. Purchased towards the end of the 1840s, work began on the asylum - to be known as the Hampshire County Lunatic Asylum - in 1850, and the asylum took its first patients in December 1852.
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|Body= By 1900, overcrowding in [[Pilgrim State Hospital|city asylums was becoming a major problem]] that many tried to resolve. One answer was to put the mentally ill to work farming in a relaxing setting on what was then rural Long Island. The new state hospitals were dubbed "Farm Colonies" because of their live-and-work treatment programs, agricultural focus and patient facilities.    
 
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Revision as of 03:29, 15 September 2019

Featured Image Of The Week

NYpilgrimPC1.png
By 1900, overcrowding in city asylums was becoming a major problem that many tried to resolve. One answer was to put the mentally ill to work farming in a relaxing setting on what was then rural Long Island. The new state hospitals were dubbed "Farm Colonies" because of their live-and-work treatment programs, agricultural focus and patient facilities.
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