STANLEY ROYD HOSPITAL

A new spirit pervaded the attitude to mental illness, enthusiasm for the possibility of care resting upon the introduction of meaningful occupation on the farms attached to the hospitals. This enthusiasm is clearly apparent in the account of the asylum which became Stanley Royd Hospital. The account which follows is constructed around the personalities who successively were appointed as Directors of the hospital and of those staff who worked with them. Some achieved a lasting place in the annals of psychiatric care and study of mental illness. Sir William Ellis, the first Director of the Hospital set a high standard of care. Henry Maudsley, who founded the hospital in London known by his name, worked briefly at the Hospital. Dr Ferrier developed pathological research, Dr Bevan Lewis wrote one of the early influential texts of psychiatry and Dr Shaw Bolton established teaching of mental disease in Leeds University, and became one of the early professors of psychiatry. Perhaps the best..