Holloway Sanatorium - Wards

Wards

The functions of wards and sections of wards changed according to administrative needs and the needs of patients treated, also influenced by the financial wealth of patients. For example, prior to nationalisation, Connolly ward, which was a small ward on the ground floor at the back of the hospital in 1972, had previously been incorporated with an equivalent floor space on the two floors above into a luxury suite for one patient only. The wards were named as below from the time the hospital was taken over by the NHS. Many of the less familiar names are of pioneering psychiatrists. Wards in other nearby hospitals, e.g. Brookwood Hospital in Woking, were similarly named.

The following names have been found for wards as of 1975. Wards are classified according to security required and further in to Assessment, Rehabilitation and Elderly Care.

Assessment:

• Campbell Clarke
• David Moore
• Jackson
• Rush

Security (now referred to as "P I C U", Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit) (Locked):

• Clouston

Rehabilitation:

• Henderson
• Pinel
• Sherrington
• Tuke

Elderly Care Assessment:

• Craig
• Dale
• Gillespie
• Florence Nightingale

Long term Elderly Care:

• Connolly
• Dorothea Dix
• Jane Holloway
• Thomas Holloway
• Marie Curie

Day Hospital:

• Lister 2

E.C.T. suite:

• Elizabeth Casson

Unused:

• Lister 1
• Harvey

From the late 1960s on the hospital followed the national trend toward "open door" policies. Physical security, locks, fences etc., were changed arbitrarily by "trial and error" rather than by consultative planning and reference to research. As in other psychiatric hospitals this proved difficult to implement safely, especially for elderly patients.