G'day Jan ! I have no detailed medical knowledge whatsoever ! - but if you put "Mitral Disease" into Google you will get over 9,000 hits ! - I only looked at the 10 on the first page, but I think you will find it is a heart disease connected with the mitral valve ! I don't think there is any mental illness implied here at all; I think the word 'Asylum' is being used in an old sense of a hospital or place to rest and recover ?? Perhaps any Listers with medical knowledge may care to comment on my "diagnosis" ? Best Wishes ! Roger. --------------------- On 28 Oct 2008, at 20:57, Neil & Jan Hearn wrote: > Hello, > Thanks for all the helpful replies. The 1914 death > certificate > states she died at "Essex Colchester Asylum" but gives her cause of > death as > Mitral Disease with no reference to any mental illness. > > Jan > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Hina" <robhina@btinternet.com> > To: <middlesex_county_uk@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:00 AM > Subject: Re: [MDX] Asylum > > >> In 1953 the hospital was re-named Warley Hospital but the major >> part of it >> was closed down and sold >> to property developers around 2000. >> The site below gives one view on the development, but googling >> 'Warley' >> will give quite a few others. >> boredtown.co.uk/warley.html >> >> My father was treated there from the mid-forties to mid-fifties >> and we >> used to go back to see some of his >> mates, mainly those who had not recovered psychologically from their >> war-time service/experiences. >> I believe that we used to go to E-block on these occasions. It was >> very >> disconcerting to find that E-block >> had been replaced by an almost disney-esque housing development. I >> think >> about a quarter of the old site >> has housing built on it but it still had some of the broad vistas >> down the >> hill that I remember from my >> childhood. There is still a series of operating NHS units at the >> top of >> the site, but the old Victorian Gothic >> core is being converted into flats and offices as far as I >> understand. >> >> ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Margaret Grundy <margaret.g39@btinternet.com> >> To: middlesex_county_uk@rootsweb.com >> Sent: Tuesday, 28 October, 2008 5:57:34 PM >> Subject: [MDX] Asylum >> >> The Essex County Asylum is not the same as Severalls Colchester. >> >> The Essex County Insane Asylum was in Brentwood Essex and opened >> in 1853 >> with 450 patients.It changed to the Brentwood Mental Hospital in >> 1920.It >> is >> now a park as far as I can tell. >> There is more on the web if you look for either hospitals. >> >> Margaret >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MIDDLESEX_COUNTY_UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MIDDLESEX_COUNTY_UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK- > admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ESSEX-UK- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

The implications are that the asylum in Colchester was a mental hospital. Anne On 28 Oct 2008, at 23:05, Roger Partridge wrote: > G'day Jan ! > > I have no detailed medical knowledge whatsoever ! - but if you put > "Mitral > Disease" into Google you will get over 9,000 hits ! - I only looked > at the 10 > on the first page, but I think you will find it is a heart disease > connected with > the mitral valve ! I don't think there is any mental illness > implied here at all; > I think the word 'Asylum' is being used in an old sense of a hospital > or place > to rest and recover ?? Perhaps any Listers with medical knowledge may > care > to comment on my "diagnosis" ? > > Best Wishes ! Roger. > --------------------- > On 28 Oct 2008, at 20:57, Neil & Jan Hearn wrote: > >> Hello, >> Thanks for all the helpful replies. The 1914 death >> certificate >> states she died at "Essex Colchester Asylum" but gives her cause of >> death as >> Mitral Disease with no reference to any mental illness. >> >> Jan >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Robert Hina" <robhina@btinternet.com> >> To: <middlesex_county_uk@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:00 AM >> Subject: Re: [MDX] Asylum >> >> >>> In 1953 the hospital was re-named Warley Hospital but the major >>> part of it >>> was closed down and sold >>> to property developers around 2000. >>> The site below gives one view on the development, but googling >>> 'Warley' >>> will give quite a few others. >>> boredtown.co.uk/warley.html >>> >>> My father was treated there from the mid-forties to mid-fifties >>> and we >>> used to go back to see some of his >>> mates, mainly those who had not recovered psychologically from their >>> war-time service/experiences. >>> I believe that we used to go to E-block on these occasions. It was >>> very >>> disconcerting to find that E-block >>> had been replaced by an almost disney-esque housing development. I >>> think >>> about a quarter of the old site >>> has housing built on it but it still had some of the broad vistas >>> down the >>> hill that I remember from my >>> childhood. There is still a series of operating NHS units at the >>> top of >>> the site, but the old Victorian Gothic >>> core is being converted into flats and offices as far as I >>> understand. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ---- >>> From: Margaret Grundy <margaret.g39@btinternet.com> >>> To: middlesex_county_uk@rootsweb.com >>> Sent: Tuesday, 28 October, 2008 5:57:34 PM >>> Subject: [MDX] Asylum >>> >>> The Essex County Asylum is not the same as Severalls Colchester. >>> >>> The Essex County Insane Asylum was in Brentwood Essex and opened >>> in 1853 >>> with 450 patients.It changed to the Brentwood Mental Hospital in >>> 1920.It >>> is >>> now a park as far as I can tell. >>> There is more on the web if you look for either hospitals. >>> >>> Margaret >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> MIDDLESEX_COUNTY_UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >>> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> MIDDLESEX_COUNTY_UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >>> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK- >> admin@rootsweb.com >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ESSEX-UK- >> request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message