There was a laundry at Sunnyside where there was a matron and staff and patients worked there too. The matron lived in a flat above the laundry. This was before during and after WW11. When she retired I don't think she was replaced. There was a thriving farm which won prizes for their bulls. A shop and small tea room was quite near the laundry as I recall. My father worked at the laundry and my mother worked there during the war. As a child I visited quite a few times.   Bette From: Inez Reed <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 30 August 2013, 1:08 Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Residence: Sunnyside Lunatic Asylum. Those in residential care were generally referred to as either inmates or patients depending on the view of the census taker. Staffers generally had an occupation listed such as nurse, doctor, attendant. In the States, at least, I've seen very little notes on the patients' former occupation or status. Inez ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message