St Matthew's Hospital
Staffordshire, United Kingdom · built 1864
St Matthew's Hospital, formerly known as the Burntwood Asylum, was a mental health facility in Burntwood, Staffordshire, England. Founded as the Second Staffordshire County Asylum in 1864, it was one of three lunatic asylums built in the county of Staffordshire. The plan was for the asylum to house 500 patients, but it was later expanded to provide a capacity of 1,302 beds. The asylum complex included the main facility, an electricity plant, gas works, bakery, fire department, farm, mortuary, landscaped and vegetable gardens and cemetery. During World War II, the asylum took in emergency civilian and military patients, including the first group of 242 injured and sick soldiers evacuated after the Battle of Dunkirk. In 1948, the hospital was transferred to the National Health Service and officially became St Matthew's Hospital. The hospital closed in 1995. Most buildings were demolished and the site was re-used as a new housing development.
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