Opening
The Hampshire County Lunatic Asylum was built to the designs of J Harris, architect, under the provisions of the Lunacy Act 1845, and some of the construction of the hospital was undertaken by prisoners of war from the Crimean campaign. The first medical superintendent was Dr Ferguson and the and the asylum received its first twenty patients in December 1852, who were admitted from the workhouse in Fareham. This was situated close to the junction of the Old Turnpike with Wickham Road.
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