Norfolk Official Lists From The Earliest Period To The Present Day

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Opened in 1814 as a pioneer county pauper institution, the Norfolk Lunatic Asylum, later St Andrew's Hospital, provided psychiatric care until 1998. It's history covers two centuries of different approaches to mental health care, reorganisations & disturbing events during times of national emergency.