Driffold Asylum
From Asylum Projects
| Driffold Asylum | |
|---|---|
| Opened | 1836 |
| Closed | 1931 |
| Demolished | 1935 |
| Current Status | Demolished |
| Building Style | Single Building |
| Location | Birmingham |
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History[edit]
Dr George Bodington was an established General Practitioner in Erdington (Parish of Aston) Warwickshire, when he returned to Sutton Coldfield to devote himself to the care of the Mentally Sick. He became proprietor of the Driffold House Asylum in Maney. According to the 1851 census there were 11 Lunatic Patients at the Driffold Asylum with 6 Staff including his Wife, Ann and Daughter Mary.
In 1840 G. Bodington wrote a revolutionary paper entitled "An essay on the Treatment and Cure of Pulmonary Consumption" which changed ideas of this disease and its treatment. He died in 1882 in his 83rd year in Sutton Coldfield. Some of the area of the Driffold Asylum is now the site of Sutton Coldfield Odeon.
