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The Maudsley Hospital: Design and Strategic Direction, 1923–1939

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2012

Robin Woolven
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Institute of Psychiatry and King's Centre for Military Research, Weston Education Centre, 10 Cutcombe Road, London SE5 9RJ, UK
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7 Ibid., item 2, p. 282.

8 Ibid.

9 The National Archives (hereafter NA), FD 1/244, Letter from Edwin Goodall to Sir Walter Fletcher, 3 Oct. 1932.

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11 F W Mott, ‘Preface’, Arch. Neurol., 1903, 2: vii–xiv, on p. xi.

12 F W Mott, ‘Preface’, Arch. Neurol. Psychiatry, 1914, 6: v–ix, on p. ix.

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16 Emil Kraepelin, Memoirs, Berlin, Springer, 1987. Speaking of his Munich clinic, Kraepelin wrote: “once, a couple of gentlemen from England came to see us; psychiatric clinics like ours did not exist in England at that time. They looked at everything in detail, but as I had heard from an English colleague, they later claimed that they had not seen anything special or different from other clinics. Otherwise, Englishmen rarely came to visit; amongst the more well-known colleagues, Clouston came to visit”, p. 136.

17 NA, FD 1/244, Letter from Edwin Goodall, medical superintendent of Cardiff Mental Hospital, to Sir Walter Fletcher, 3 Oct. 1932. According to Goodall, Kraepelin claimed German ancestry for Mott to account for his productive research.

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31 Ibid., p. 9.

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37 NA PIN 15/55, Letter from E Mapother to Col. A W Sheen, 29 Dec. 1919.

38 NA PIN 15/55, Letter from E Mapother to Col. A W Sheen, 17 Dec. 1919.

39 Ibid.

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41 BRHA, CB184, Case Book Females (1908), Mary Mapother, 25 Jan. 1908, p. 10.

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56 Ibid., p. 1.

57 NA, MH 95/32, Memo, C F Penton, 18 Oct. 1937.

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59 Ibid., pp. 15, 16.

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62 LMA, Report of the Asylums and Mental Deficiency Committee, 27 June 1922.

63 Ibid.

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67 Gibbon and Bell, op. cit., note 34 above, p. 360.

68 LMA, Report of the Asylums and Mental Deficiency Committee, 27 June 1922; ibid., 25 July 1922.

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78 BRHA, C/12/4, E Mapother, `Appeal for the endowment of an institute of psychiatry', March 1931, p. 6.

79 NA, MH 95/32, Official visit on behalf of the Board of Control, 8 July 1932, p. 5.

80 LMA, Published minutes of the London County Council, 18 Feb. 1908, p. 282; Bond, op. cit., note 72 above.

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85 Ibid.

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90 BRHA, C/12/4, E Mapother, ‘Appeal for the endowment of an institute of psychiatry’, March 1931, pp. 1, 32.

91 Jones, op. cit., note 77 above, p. 20; Hayward, op. cit., note 10 above.

92 NA, FD 1/2411, E Mapother to Sir Walter Fletcher, 20 July 1932.

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95 Aubrey Lewis, ‘Henry Maudsley: his work and influence’, J. Ment. Sci., 1951, 97: 259–77, on p. 274.

96 Rockefeller Archive, 1.1 401A 19 253, Memo E Mapother to Alan Gregg, Jan. 1936, p. 1.

97 RA, 1.1 401A 19 255, Memo from D P O'Brien to Alan Gregg, 11 Mar. 1938.

98 Ibid.

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102 BRHA, C/12/4, E Mapother, ‘Appeal for the endowment of an institute of psychiatry’, March 1931, p. 1.

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104 RA, 1.1 401A 19 255, Memo from D P O'Brien to Alan Gregg, 11 Mar. 1938.

105 NA, MH 95/32, Memorandum from E Mapother to the sub-committee appointed to consider possible developments arising out of the Mental Treatment Act of 1930, p. 3.

106 RA, 1.1 401A 19 254, Memo from D P O'Brien to Alan Gregg, 12 Jan. 1938, p. 9.

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116 Ibid., p. 12.

117 Ibid., pp. 2, 12, 14.