";s:4:"text";s:14286:"There were separate dormitories for male and female patients, each one holding around 60 people in two wards. The estate of Lennox Castle in Lennoxtown, 13 miles North of Glasgow, was bought by Glasgow Parish Council in 1927 to build a hospital for people with learning disabilities, and which was to be called Lennox Castle Hospital.Patients then were known as mental defectives.The Hospital included the mansion house of Lennox Castle built in the 1840s. FreeBMD provides free access to birth, marriage and death records. ['mark', 'firstbyte', (new Date()).getTime()]]; We apologise in advance if either of these changes introduced any unwanted modifications. They illustrate the dilemma he faced in writing about such a subject at that time: Startling as his aspect was, the features were good, and there was something even plaintive in his wan and haggard aspect. Others protested at the general inhumanity of regimented, mass care. Lookup searches - Access records in Scottish archives for ancestors in this parish (e.g. Timmins, N. (1996) The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State, Fontana, London. Sent me protocols about Lennox Castle, and named the address of the archives in Edinburgh because that is where my baby was taken to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children.