^ " 'You don't have time to panic': When Stacey Dooley met mental health nurses". In February 1941, Springfield was chosen as the site of the OReilly General Army hospital, to be located on a reservation bounded by Division, Fremont.The red-brick Portland stone design resembled a district. Six wards (two for assessment and four for treatment) housed 144 beds rather than the 108 originally planned. ^ "Go-ahead given for new £150m mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital". Construction of the Maudsley Hospital main building was authorized in October 1913 and completed two years later by which time building and site costs had risen to £69,750."Bidders day for £160m London hospital upgrade". ^ "Springfield hospital redevelopment to go ahead despite protests".^ "Part 6 of Findings and Recommendations Following Enquiries into Allegations Concerning the Care of Elderly Patients in Certain Hospitals".^ a b c d e f g "Springfield University Hospital"."Details from listed building database (1065553)". South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust. In February 2020 the hospital was featured in the BBC documentary "On the Psych Ward". In January 2020 £150 million of funding was approved to create eight new inpatient wards at the hospital. Proceeds are being used to create new state-of-the- art mental health centres at Springfield and at Tolworth Hospital in Surbiton. Much of the original hospital building is now disused, and there are plans to convert this to a residential development, "Springfield Village". In its heyday the hospital had 2,000 patients but it is now reduced to under 300 inpatients.
In 2004 John Barrett, who had paranoid schizophrenia, walked out of the hospital and stabbed Dennis Finnegan, a cyclist, to death. The committee found that at least two of the charge nurses showed themselves prone to outbursts of ill-temper which expressed itself in violence. It was one of the hospitals investigated in 1967 as a result of the publication of Barbara Robb's book Sans Everything. It joined the National Health Service in 1948.
During the Second World War a serious bout of dysentery broke out at the hospital. A new infirmary block to treat mentally ill patients who were also physically ill opened in July 1932. ĭuring the First World War it became the Springfield War Hospital and, after the war, it became the Springfield Mental Hospital. It came under the management of Middlesex County Council in 1888 and was renamed the Wandsworth Asylum. A purpose-built chapel was added in 1881. The original building was a grand symmetrical red brick Tudor-style composition enclosing a large courtyard, built to the designs of Edward Lapidge, the county surveyor. The hospital opened as the Surrey County Pauper Lunatic Asylum in 1840. Information card for ceremony to celebrate the opening of the New Infirmary block on 7 July 1932.
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