The National Archives

BN 37/69 NHS Health Advisory Service: Tooting Bec Hospital, London. 1973.

The London Archives

A/KE/H/01/02/06 Report on Tooting Bec Hospital. 1965.

H01/WL/A/14/001 Report of the state of the hospital [Tooting Bec] on transfer to St. Thomas’ Health District (teaching). 1975.

H01/WL/A/14/002 Voluntary Help Department:  submission for future development at Tooting Bec Hospital. 1977.

H01/WL/A/14/003. Report of Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Area Health Authority Long Stay Monitoring Group on Visit to TBH. 1981.

H01/WL/A/14/004 Closure of Tooting Bec Hospital. 1984-85.

H45/TBH/A/01/002 Hospital management committee minutes. 1948-49.

H45/TBH/A/04/001 Catering Subcommittee minutes. 1962-64.

H45/TBH/A/06/001 Subcommittee report book. 1933-35.

H45/TBH/A/08/001 Medical Superintendent’s report book. 1903-05.

H45/TBH/A/09/001 Steward’s report book. 1912-17.

H45/TBH/A/09/003 Steward’s report book. 1934-48.

H45/TBH/A/10/001 Remarks of visitors. 1903-61. 

H45/TBH/C/03/001 Officers’ conduct book: nurses. 1909-1914.

H45/TBH/Y/01/002/01 Simmons. The History of Tooting Bec Hospital vol.1. 1995.

H45/TBH/Y/01/002/02 Simmons. The History of Tooting Bec Hospital vol.2.1995.

MAB/0412 Tooting Bec Subcommittee minute book. 1901-03.

MAB/0417 Tooting Bec Subcommittee minute book. 1907-09.

MAB/0421 Tooting Bec Subcommittee minute book. 1914-16.

MAB/0422 Tooting Bec Subcommittee minute book. 1916-19.

MAB/1448 Tooting Bec Subcommittee minute book: works committee. 1924-26.

MAB/2486 Metropolitan Asylums Board Papers re purchase of part of Tooting Lodge Estate. 1894.

MAB/2488 Reports of Visiting Commissioners in Lunacy. 1903-23.

WABG/145/002 Admission orders to MAB Asylum, Tooting Bec (children). 1907-20.

Wandsworth Heritage Service Archives

D134/1/1 Minutes of Friends of Tooting Bec Hospital. 1961 -65

D134/1/3 Minutes of Friends of Tooting Bec Hospital. 1969-74.

D134/1/5 Minutes of Friends of Tooting Bec Hospital. 1983-87

D134/2/1 Friends of Tooting Bec Hospital papers: scrapbook. 1961-2002.

Unpublished correspondence and interviews

Anon. (2023). ‘Tooting Bec Hospital remembered project’.Interviewed by L. Sayce, 27 November.

Anon. (2024). ‘Tooting Bec Hospital remembered project’. Interviewed by L. Sayce, 16 February.

Anon. (2025). Email to L. Sayce, 28 July.

Davies, H. (2025). Email to K. Ellis-Rees, 31 March.

Farries, S. (2025). Email to K. Ellis-Rees, 2 April.

Perkins, R. (2025). Email to L. Sayce, 26 July.

Spencer, N. (2025). ‘Tooting Bec Hospital remembered project: Neil Spencer.’ Interviewed by Philip Bradley, 21 March.

Woodward, M. (1925). Email to L. Sayce, 25 July.

Published works: print and online

Ayers, G. M. (1971). England’s first state hospitals and the Metropolitan Asylums Board 1867-1930. London: Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine.

Belfast Telegraph. (1974). ‘Death of mental patient: nurses cleared’, Belfast Telegraph, 22 May.

Bewley, B. (2016). Beulah Bewley: my life as a woman and doctor. Bristol: Silverwood.

Birmingham Post. (1975). ‘Nurses at risk from patients need former guidelines’, Birmingham Post, 13 November.

British Journal of Nursing. (1926). ‘Royal Commission on lunacy and mental disorder’, British Journal of Nursing, vol.74, p.200. Available at: https://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME074-1926/page200-volume74-september1926.pdf

The Builder. (1903). ‘The new asylum, Tooting Bec’, The Builder, vol.84, 20 June.

Daily Chronicle. (1902). ‘A head laundry man [advert]’, London Daily Chronicle, 10 November.

Daily Express. (1903). ‘Male attendants wanted [advert]’, Daily Express, 1 August.

Dyer, L. (2017). ‘It seemed like a depressing place: the story of Tooting’s forgotten asylum’, SW Londoner, 6 January. Available at: https://www.swlondoner.co.uk/life/06012017-seemed-like-depressing-place-story-tootings-forgotten-asylum

East End News and London Shipping Chronicle. (1917). ‘Stepney Guardians: sequel to an inquest’, East End News and London Shipping Chronicle, 6 February.

‘Erving Goffman’. (1925). Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erving_Goffman

Evening News. (1978). ‘Nurse who was killed in revenge’, Evening News, 3 October.

General Register Office. (1907). Certified copy of death certificate for Patrick Dempsey, March 1907.  Wandsworth 1d 434.

General Register Office. (1917). Certified copy of death certificate for Francis L. Kitson, August 1917.  Romford 4a 379.

General Register Office. (1909). Certified copy of marriage certificate for Elizabeth Mary Cottrill, 4^th quarter 1909.  Epping 4a 733.

General Register Office. (1911). Census return for Tooting Bec Asylum. Wandsworth 26, Streatham 5, ED 86.  Available at www.ancestry.co.uk [Accessed: 2 May 2025].

General Register Office. (1921). Census return for Tooting Bec Asylum. Wandsworth 26, subdistrict 6, ED 24.  Available at www.ancestry.co.uk [Accessed: 2 May 2025].

Harston, C. and Harston, A. (1903). Tooting Bec Asylum: descriptive notes. London: Avenue Press.

The Health Foundation. (no date). Audit Commission Report: ‘Making a reality of community care’. Available at: https://navigator.health.org.uk/theme/audit-commission-report-making-reality-community-care 

The Health Foundation. (no date). Enoch Powell’s ‘water tower’ speech. Available at: https://navigator.health.org.uk/theme/enoch-powells-water-tower-speech

Hilton, C. (2020). ‘90 years ago: the Mental Health Treatment Act 1930’, Royal College of Psychiatrists, 9 September. Available at:https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-features/blogs/detail/history-archives-and-library-blog/2020/09/09/90-years-ago-the-mental-treatment-act-1930-by-dr-claire-hilton

Hunt, E. A. (1903). The Eastern Counties’ Asylum for Idiots, Imbeciles and the Feeble-minded compared with some similar institutions elsewhere. [no place: no publisher].

London Daily Chronicle. (1903). ‘Wanted at Tooting Bec Asylum [advert]’, London Daily Chronicle, 7 October.

Imperial War Museum. (no date). War memorials register: Metropolitan Asylums Board. Available: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/12105

The King’s Fund. (2023) ‘You called and we came’: Windrush and the NHS. Available at: https://features.kingsfund.org.uk/windrush-and-the-nhs/

Lost Hospitals of London. (2017). Tooting Bec Hospital. Available at: https://www.ezitis.myzen.co.uk/tootingbec.html

Metropolitan Asylums Board. (1893). Reports for the year 1892 of the statistical committee and the medical superintendents of the infectious hospitals and imbecile asylums. London: Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Metropolitan Asylums Board. (1900). Annual report of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, 1899. vol.1. London: Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Metropolitan Asylums Board. (1902). Annual report of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, 1901. vol.1. London: Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Metropolitan Asylums Board. (1903). Annual report for the year 1902. London:Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Metropolitan Asylums Board. (1904). Annual report of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, 1903. vol.1. London: Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Metropolitan Asylums Board. (1905). Annual report for the year 1904. London:Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Metropolitan Asylums Board. (1906). Annual report for the year 1905. London: Metropolitan Archives Board.

Metropolitan Asylums Board. (1907). Annual report for the year 1906. London:Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Metropolitan Asylums Board. (1908). Annual report for the year 1907. London:Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Metropolitan Asylums Board. (1910). Annual report for the year 1909. London: Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Metropolitan Asylums Board. (1914). Annual report for the year 1913. London:Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Metropolitan Asylums Board. (1915). Annual report for the year 1914. London: Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Metropolitan Asylums Board. (1916). Annual report for the year 1915. London: Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Metropolitan Asylums Board. (1917). Annual report for the year 1916. London: Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Metropolitan Asylums Board. (1919). Annual report for the year 1918. London: Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Metropolitan Asylums Board. (1920). Annual report for the year 1919-20. London: Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy. (1844). Report of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor. London: Bradbury & Evan.

Milne, A. (1948). ‘Runs 26 miles, then on to a 12-hour shift’, The Daily Mirror, 9 August.

Nolan, P. (1993). A history of mental health nursing. London: Chapman & Hall.

Norwood News. (1932). ‘Tooting Bec Hospital do well’, Norwood News, 5 August.

Norwood News. (1937). ‘Allegations of cruelty at hospital’, Norwood News, 15 January.

Norwood News. (1955). ‘Patient, 70, had to do scrubbing’, Norwood News, 29 April.

Powell, A. (1930). The Metropolitan Asylums Board and its work, 1867-1930. London: Metropolitan Asylums Board.

The Pump. (2002). [Disbanding of the Friends of Tooting Bec Hospital]. The Pump, March 2002.

‘R. D. Laing’. (1925). Wikipedia. Available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._D._Laing

Robb, B.  (1967). Sans everything: a case to answer; presented by Barbara Robb on behalf of Aegis. London: Nelson.

Royal College of Nursing. (2015). Out of the asylum: the history of mental health nursing. Available at: https://www.rcn.org.uk/library-exhibitions/Out-of-the-asylum-The-history-of-mental-health-nursing

Sayce, L. (2015). ‘A short history of Tooting Bec Asylum’, Disability Rights UK, 2 December. Available at: https://disabilityrightsuk.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-short-history-of-tooting-bec-asylum.html

The Scotsman. (1990). ‘Help for the impotent’, The Scotsman, 20 February.

The Scotsman. (1991). ‘Condemned to a life on drugs’, The Scotsman, 19 February.

Sherman, J. (1996). ‘Hospital criticized over care standards’, The Times, 8 October.

Snell, J. (2014). ‘Ray Rowden 1952-2014 Mental health nurse and leading healthcare figure, who was a force to be reckoned with right to the end’, Nursing Standard, 4 November, vol.29 (9).

South Western Star. (1907). ‘Suicide at Tooting Bec Asylum’, South Western Star, 1 November.

South Western Star. (1951). ‘In hospital 8 years without a visitor’, South Western Star, 23 November.

South Western Star. (1953). ‘Ex-soldier thought people were against him’, South Western Star, 11 September.

St Pancras Guardian & Camden & Kentish Town Reporter. (1910). ‘Gas meter robbery’, St Pancras Guardian & Camden & Kentish Town Reporter, 27 May.

Streatham News. (1930). ‘Mysterious outbreak’, Streatham News, 30 April.

Streatham News. (1934). ‘Question about floor polish; Battersea woman’s death’, Streatham News, 22 June.

Streatham News. (1939). ‘Nurse fatally injured’, Streatham News, 6 October.

Streatham News. (1941). ‘Male nurses’, Streatham News, 28 February.

Streatham News. (1942). ‘Tooting Bec Hospital’, Streatham News, 2 January.

Streatham News. (1965). ‘Padded cell fire death’, Streatham News, 8 January.

‘Tooting Bec Hospital’ (2025). Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooting_Bec_Hospital 

Wandsworth Borough News. (1990). ‘Supermarket and homes plan for hospital site’, Wandsworth Borough News, 18 May.

Wandsworth Borough News. (1996). ‘Green light for hospital site housing development’, Wandsworth Borough News, 25 October.

Wandsworth Borough News. (1996). ‘Tesco plans offices for Tooting hospital sites’, Wandsworth Borough News, 23 February. 

Warren, P. (2022). ‘Thomas Bewley obituary’, The Guardian, 2 August.  Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/02/thomas-bewley-obituary

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