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unusual facts about Stoke Park Hospital


Stoke Park Hospital

The colony was the first institution certified as a home for mentally retarded patients under the Mental Deficiency Act 1913, the Rev. Burden having been a member of the Royal Commission for inquiry into care of the feeble-minded that lead to the Act.


North Fringe of Bristol

Before the motorways were built in the 1960s and 1970s, the area contained the suburban villages of Filton, Patchway and Stoke Gifford, together with Stoke Park Hospital.


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