# Garlands Hospital

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{{Infobox hospital
| name                = Garlands Hospital
| org_group           = 
| logo                = 
| image               = Converted hospital building (geograph 2219458).jpg
| caption             = Garlands Hospital
| location            = [Carleton](/source/Carleton%2C_Carlisle) near [Carlisle](/source/Carlisle)
| region              = [Cumbria](/source/Cumbria)
| state               = 
| country             = England
| coordinates         = {{coord|54.8766|-2.8858|display=inline,title}}
| healthcare          = NHS
| type                = Specialist
| speciality          = [Psychiatric](/source/Psychiatric_hospital) Hospital
| emergency           = N/A
| affiliation         = 
| beds                = 
| founded             = 1862
| closed              = 1999
| website             = 
| other_links         = <!-- optional -->
| pushpin_map         = Cumbria
| pushpin_map_caption = Shown in Cumbria
}}
'''Garlands Hospital''' was a mental health facility at [Carleton](/source/Carleton%2C_Carlisle) near [Carlisle](/source/Carlisle) in [Cumbria](/source/Cumbria), England.

==History==
The hospital, which was designed by [Thomas Worthington](/source/Thomas_Worthington_(architect)) and John Augustus Cory using a Corridor Plan layout, opened as the Cumberland and Westmorland Lunatic Asylum in January 1862.<ref name=county>{{cite web|url=https://www.countyasylums.co.uk/garlands-carleton-carlisle/|title=Garlands Hospital|publisher=County Asylums|accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref>  The building was implemented by John Augustus Cory, surveyor to the county of Cumberland.<ref name=county/> It joined the [National Health Service](/source/National_Health_Service) as Garlands Hospital in 1948.<ref name=county/> Concerns were raised in Parliament about the amount of overcrowding in the hospital in 1955.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=1955-05-02a.1334.8|title=Garlands Hospital, Carlisle (Accommodation)|publisher=Hansard|date=2 May 1955|accessdate=12 April 2019}}</ref>

After the introduction of [Care in the Community](/source/Care_in_the_Community) in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in March 1999.<ref name=county/> The administration block was subsequently converted into apartments.<ref name=county/>

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Category:Defunct hospitals in England
Category:Hospitals in Cumbria
Category:Hospital buildings completed in 1862
Category:Hospitals established in 1862
Category:1862 establishments in England
Category:Former psychiatric hospitals in England
Category:Hospitals disestablished in 1999
Category:1999 disestablishments in England
Category:St Cuthbert Without

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