Also called the Lincoln Lunatic Asylum. Founded 1820, closed in 1985. Was among the first to introduce a more therapeutic approach, and dispense with mechanical restraints (see also Hanwell Asylum). According to The British Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Robert Gardiner Hill was among the first at The Lawn Mental Asylum to suggest that the patients couldconduct themselves without mechanical restraining. 

Works Cited:

Mindham RHS. The Lawn Hospital, Lincoln, and Dr Robert Gardiner Hill – psychiatry in pictures. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 2022;221(2):503-504. doi:10.1192/bjp.2021.210

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