Exeter City Asylum
of Digby's, Heavitree
The site was previously occupied by Digby Farm. The hospital, which was designed by Robert Stark Wilkinson using a Linear Corridor Plan layout, opened as City of Exeter Lunatic Asylum in September 1886.
1891 Robert Leonard Rutherford is Registered Physician. With his wife Mary and four family members. 51 staff and 328 patients.[1]
1897 The Asylum held 342 patients, 158 male and 188 female.
1906 Robert Leonard Rutherford, Resident medical superintendent.[2]
1908 Digby and Sowton Railway Station, was opened to service the hospital in 1908.
1920s The asylum became Exeter City Mental Hospital
1948 Became part of the National Health Service as Digby Hospital
1970s Became the Exe Vale Hospital (Digby Branch) in the 1970s.
1986 The hospital closed and the main building was subsequently converted into apartments and is now known as Digby Park. Part of the site was used for a retail park which includes a large Tesco and PC World, among others.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1891 Census
- ↑ 1906 Kelly's Directory of Devonshire: Exeter