Friern Hospital

Opitaal Friern (ko adii ɗuum ko opitaal Lunatic Colney Hatch) ko opitaal hakkillaaji e nder parsel Friern Barnet sara nokku gonɗo e ŋoral ina joginoo wuro ina wiyee Colney Hatch. E hitaande 1965, nde wonti e nder wuro Barnet to London e nder fuɗɗoode teeminannde 21ɓiire nde wayliima wonti galleeji hoɗorde hono Princess Park Manor e Friern Village. Ospitaal oo mahiraa ko no Asylum ɗiɗaɓo e nder diiwaan Middlesex, o woni ko e golle gila 1851 haa 1993. Caggal nde diiwaan Londres sosaa e hitaande 1889 o jokki e golloraade ko ɓuri heewde e Middlesex e diiwaan keso oo, hono Londres. E nder ko ɓuri heewde e oo sahaa, mbaydi mum ɓurndi famɗude ndii, hono Hanwell Asylum, ina golloo kadi.[1]

E tooweeki mum, Colney Hatch ina wondi e 2 500 ñawɗo hakkille, ina joginoo kadi koridor ɓurɗo juutde e nder leydi Angalteer (ina ɗaɓɓi ko ɓuri waktuuji ɗiɗi ngam yahde e cuuɗi cafrirɗi ɗii).[2] Ko ɓuri heewde e teeminannde 20ɓiire, innde mayre ina nanndi e kala njuɓɓudi hakkille e nder yimɓe Londres.

Asilo oo e gese mum, gesaaji mum e nokkuuji fijooji mum ina jokkondiri e laawol Friern Barnet, ina holliraa e kartal Ordnance Survey ngal hitaande 1868–1883, ngal hollirta ko nokku jibinannde New Southgate e innde ƴellitooɓe lolluɓe Colney Hatch Park. Hannde ndeen renndo ɓurngo mawnude ko nokku mawɗo New Southgate e nder wuro Enfield to Londres. Kartal ngal hollitii asilo mawngo ngo nanndi no feewi e koɗorɗe kese ɗee e mawneeki. Friern Barnet ina huutoree hannde no feewi e New Southgate ngam nokku bannge hirnaange laawol laana njoorndi mawngol to bannge worgo – laawol juutngol ummoraade e asilo oo ardii ko e nokku mahaaɗo ngam golloraade ɗum, laana njoorndi New Southgate, ka yahri ko juuti, ina heddii. Stasiyoŋ oo ina joginoo inɗe joy ko adii ɗuum : waylooji ɗii ina kollita seeɗa-seeɗa momtude innde nokku tokooso "Colney Hatch" e nder hakkillaaji renndo e nder kuutoragol renndo.[2] Colney Hatch ko wuro tokooso to bannge funnaange, ngo woni hakkunde laawol, e nder parrois Friern Barnet mo yontaaji hakkundeeji, ngo yaaji ko kilooji 3 (4,8 km) to fuɗnaange worgo-fuɗnaange, ngo feccere njaajeendi mum. Parroisse ladde haa darorɗe teeminannde 19ɓiire ina joginoo nokku goɗɗo mawɗo, ko noon kadi wuro tokooso, Whetstone.[3]

Tariya
Daartol adanngol

Ittaa e kartal Middlesex, wiɗto kaɓirɗe, 1868-1883

Natal e peeje suudu asilo Lunatic to diiwaan Middlesex
Mahngo asilo ngoo ko Ñaawirde Toownde Middlesex yamiri ɗum, hono Asilo ɗiɗmo e nder diiwaan Middlesex. Nokku oo ko leɗɗe Hollick ɓooyɗe, Colney Hatch.[4] Arsitek oo ko Samuel Daukes, mo peeje mum koridor Itaali tuugnii e wasiyaaji John Conolly, gardiiɗo asilo diiwaan Middlesex gadano. Hayre nde ko Prince Consort lelni nde e hitaande 1849, mahdi ndii joofi ko e lewru noowammbar 1850. Njeeygu mahdi ndii ina fotnoo wonde 150 000 £, kono njoɓdi cakkitiindi ndii ina hollita tigi rigi ko 300 000 £, ɗum noon ko ndi asilo ɓurɗo yaajde e sahaa kala mahiraa, e £240 e leeso kala. Estaad oo ina joginoo ndiyam mum, e jumaa mum, e yanaande mum e nokku ndema 75 ektaar.[5] Ina waɗi kadi nokku gaas, nokku birniwol, e nokku ɗo kanaariiji njibinaa.[6]

Hiirde ñawɓe to nokku ɗo ñawɓe ɓee ngoni ɗoo, to wuro wiyeteengo Colney Hatch
Hiirde ngam nyawɓe haa suudu nyawndiigu haa lesdi Middlesex, hitaande 1853
Asilo oo udditaa ko ñalnde 17 sulyee 1851, ko laamɗo Albert [6] tawi ko William Charles Hood (1824-1870) woni gardiiɗo safaara mum gadano.[7] Hooreejo mayre tuggi 1862 haa 1890 ko Sir Wiliyam Henri Wyatt.[8][9]

Toowgol mahdi ndiyam e 'Asylum waktuuji e waktuuji, Colney Hatch' e naalanke mo anndaaka, ko ina wona hitaande 1855
E hitaande 1857, ekstensiyoŋaaji mahaa ngam addude limoore 2 000 neɗɗo. E oon sahaa, ŋakkeende mawnde e mahngo ina feeñi : e nder suudu wooturu, koɗorɗe e jolɗe ɗee ceerti, ceŋol arkowol ngol ina rokka laawol, e nder suudu woɗndu, feccere e ceŋol ngol yani. Tawaa ko suudu nduu ina ŋakki, tee fonndaasiyoŋ oo ina ŋakki, ɗum noon ina haani golle semmbinde e hitaande 1858.[5]

Ɓeydagol goɗngol ɓeydaama gila 1875 haa 1879, e hitaande 1880, sarɗiiji coktirɗi ɗii mbaɗti baasal no feewi. E hitaande 1896, galle ɓooyɗo, leɗɗe e njamndi mboɗeeri, mahiraa ngam hoɗnude 320 ñawɗo debbo mo alaa ko bonnata e nder cuuɗi joy, hay so tawii noon Komiseeruuji to Lunacy jeertinii ɗum wonde ɗum ina addana ɗum en baasal mawngal.[5]

E hitaande 1889, njiimaandi asilo ndii artiraa e juuɗe Diisnondiral kesal to Londres.[2]

Fuɗɗoode teeminannde 20ɓiire
Ñalnde 27 lewru bowte hitaande 1903, galle gonɗo e hitaande 1896 oo, yani e yiite, tawi ko 52 neɗɗo maayi heen, kamɓe fof ko rewɓe.[2][10] E nokku mum, hakkunde 1908 e 1913, villaaji kesi jeeɗiɗi duumotooɗi e birik mahaa : nayi wonande wuurɓe e yiite, gooto wonande sukaaɓe tokosɓe wonduɓe e epilepsi walla jikkuuji jiiɓru, ɗiɗo wonande ñawɓe tuberkuloos walla disenteri. E hitaande 1912, boowal kaɓirɗe e defte ɗe kuutoraaka e saraaji laawol laana njoorndi, mbaɗtaa ko hoɗorde ɓeydaande ngam ñawɓe worɓe e ɓeydaare e hoɗorde gollotooɓe e hitaande 1927, e oon sahaa gollotooɓe ina mbaɗi safrooɓe 9 timmuɓe, 494 infirmiyee en e 171 probation. 5]

E hitaande 1930, caggal Radio Friern
The hospital's internal broadcasting service started in 1971 after funds were raised by Minchenden Grammar School. Initially broadcasting to six wards from a studio in the patients' social club, the station expanded to cover most wards and departments within the hospital. Radio Friern moved to a new studio in premises originally occupied by the hospital dentist in 1975 increasing its broadcasting hours by the early 1980s to include programmes airing six days a week. The station continued to broadcast until the hospital's closure in 1993. Reference to the radio service in Barbara Taylor's book The Last Asylum is incorrect. Radio Friern was staffed by volunteers with day jobs away from the hospital, no patients were involved. Programmes would typically start at 5 pm weeknights as the first volunteers finished work. The weekend schedule started at 9 am. Staffed by no more than 25 people, Radio Friern was Friern Hospital's 'Big Little Station'.[12]

Decline and closure
In 1973 the number of patients had been reduced to 1,500, and by 1979 the hospital had only 1,023 beds. In 1989 it was decided that the hospital should close and its patients reintegrated into the community where possible. Closure came in 1993, and the building and grounds were sold to Luke and Brian Comer's Comer Homes in 1995.[13] The building was converted into luxury flats called Princess Park Manor.[5] Residents of the development have included members of the boy band One Direction, girl bands Girls Aloud and the Sugababes, along with other pop stars and footballers.[13]

Notable residents
Adam Ant, following a suicide attempt by an overdose of pills in 1976.
Jenny Diski, an English writer, briefly stayed at the hospital.[14]
John Duffy, British serial killer and rapist.
Maria Teresa Ferrari de Miramar (also Sanchez), one of Aleister Crowley's wives.
Rahel Hirsch, first female medical professor in Prussia.
Aaron Kosminski, Hyam Hyams[15] and David Cohen, Jack the Ripper suspects.
Dorothy Lawrence, a journalist who dressed as a man to report on the front lines of World War I.
Barbara Taylor, then a young historian, was admitted in 1988 following a nervous breakdown. Decades later, she wrote The Last Asylum: A Memoir Of Madness In Our Times.[16]
In popular culture
The asylum is alluded to in P.G. Wodehouse's novel The Code of the Woosters. When Wodehouse's famous Jeeves and Wooster are discussing their latest predicament, Jeeves suggests that a character is eccentric, to which Wooster responds: "Eccentric? She could step straight into Colney Hatch, and no questions asked."[17]

The asylum is referenced (as a byword for madness) in chapter 8 of the children's novel The Magician's Nephew, part of the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S Lewis: when Jadis proclaims herself as an Empress and demands that residents of London bow to her, they jeeringly respond by saying in Cockney dialect, "Three cheers for the Hempress of Colney 'atch!".[18]

Will Self's 2012 novel Umbrella is largely set in the hospital.[19] It also features in Margaret Drabble's The Pure Gold Baby.[20]

Lindsay Anderson's 1982 film Britannia Hospital used the hospital's buildings and entrance gates for exterior scenes.[21]

In G. K. Chesterton's The Man who was Thursday, the asylum is again referenced as a byword for madness in the following dialog: “Your offer,” he said, “is far too idiotic to be declined. You say that a poet is always an anarchist. I disagree; but I hope at least that he is always a sportsman. Permit me, here and now, to swear as a Christian, and promise as a good comrade and a fellow-artist, that I will not report anything of this, whatever it is, to the police. And now, in the name of Colney Hatch, what is it?”[22]

See also
Healthcare in London
References
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 Bloomfield, Ruth (4 October 2012). "Princess Park Manor: From Asylum to Posh Retreat for One Direction – WSJ". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 14 August 2015.(subscription required)
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 Alberge, Dalya (15 July 2023). "Jack the Ripper's identity 'revealed' by newly discovered medical records". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
 Diski, Jenny (6 February 2014). "I haven't been nearly mad enough". London Review of Books. pp. 3–6. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
 Wodehouse, P.G. (2008). The Code of the Woosters (Arrow Books ed.). London: Arrow Books. ISBN 978-0099513759.
 Lewis, CS (2005). The Magician's Nephew (HarperCollins ed.). New York: HarperTrophy. ISBN 978-0064471107.
 Mark Lawson (10 August 2012). "Umbrella by Will Self – review | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
 Drabble, Margaret (2013). The Pure Gold Baby. Canongate. p. 218. ISBN 978-1782111092.
 "Britannia Hospital". Reel Streets. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
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