Moston Hospital had no locked doors. It accepted patients of most types
but half the total beds wdhe for short-stay illnesses. It attracted a progressive
staff who introduced many experiments which were afterwards copied elsewhere.
There was just one nursing staff, mixed. Now a sick man could have women’s
comfort, a sick woman a man’s strength as well as their own sex’s
aid. Psychiatric patients are about all day. Now, wards for both
sexes were introduced, for both old and young. Advantages outweighed problems.
Moston started an adolescent unit with its own school; a drug addiction
unit and a day hospital all of which I had contact with supplying books,
films, talks, or music. All this has now been transferred to the old hospital
in new or modernised premises and Moston closed in 1982.
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