{"id":132681,"date":"2025-05-26T07:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T07:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/132681\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T07:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T07:36:11","slug":"torture-or-treatment-the-rise-of-nottinghams-pioneering-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/132681\/","title":{"rendered":"Torture or treatment? The rise of Nottingham&#8217;s pioneering asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fate of the incurable can also be glimpsed the same year, when the last remaining private patient, a woman, died after almost 39 years in the asylum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The decades took their toll on the institution, and with patient numbers still climbing, new asylums had to be built further out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By 1891, with buildings aging and the expanding city crowding around, commissioners described the original asylum as &#8220;inconvenient, ill constructed [and] ill adapted&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It closed in 1902, with most of the buildings knocked down soon after &#8211; though the site, now a public park, was not fully cleared until the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The only reminder is a plaque on the final surviving fragment, a red brick pillar which formed part of an entrance gate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Sweetmore added: &#8220;Asylums were largely closed down in the late 20th Century but places like Nottingham, for all their failings, were a big step away from what went before.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fate of the incurable can also be glimpsed the same year, when the last remaining private patient,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-132681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}