Cheadle Royal Hospital
Originally opened in 1766 under the name Manchester Lunatic Hospital, around the time Bethlem and Saint Luke's were opened. The hospital accepted voluntary patients into their walls. Although the Manchester Lunatic Hospital was located near the Manchester Infirmary, their treatments were very closely intertwined. In Leonard Smith's book "Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750-1830" the trustees of Manchester said "no cases can be as truly deplorable as those lunaticks" (23) in reference to their patients. The asylum became Cheadle Royal Hospital in 1902.
Works Cited:
Smith, Leonard. Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England 1750-1830. Routledge.