| 词条 | Merrifield Children's Unit |
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| Name = Merrifield Children's Unit | Org/Group = | Image =MerrifieldChildrensUnit.jpg | image alt = | Caption = View of the extended Merrifield Children's Unit, as officially opened in March 1976 | map_type = Somerset | map_caption = Shown in Somerset | Logo = | Logo Size = | Location = Cotford St Luke | Region = Somerset | Coordinates = {{coord|51.0392|-3.1886|display=inline,title|type:landmark_region:GB}} | Speciality = Mental health | Standards = | State = | Country = England | HealthCare = NHS | Type = Psychiatric institution for children | Emergency = | Helipad = | Affiliation = | Network = | Beds = | Founded = 1950s | Closed = 1995 | Website = None | Wiki-Links = }}Merrifield Children’s Unit (also known as Merryfield or Merrifields) was a residential children’s and adolescents’ psychiatric institution in the grounds of Tone Vale Hospital (an adult mental hospital) approximately {{convert|3|km|abbr=in}} north west of Norton Fitzwarren, near Taunton, Somerset, England, in what is now the village Cotford St Luke.[1] HistoryThe Merrifield Unit was established by psychiatrist Dr Martin Frank (known as 'Jim') Bethell (d. 1982)[2] as a regional unit for the treatment of young people.[3] By November 1961, it was catering for 36 'psychotic and maladjusted' children.[4] In the mid-1970s, the Merrifield buildings were upgraded, and a substantial new extension was opened in March 1976 by Sir Desmond Pond.[3] The Unit served the whole of South West England, and for much of its existence its management was under the control of Dr Bethell and nursing officer Donald Mackey.[5] Other child psychiatry specialists associated with Merrifield included Dr Adriaan Bakker[6] and Dr Frank Bayley.[7] Of the Merrifield patients, one observer notes, "Some of the children, although highly disturbed, were extremely well read and educated."[5] Tone Vale Hospital, Merrifield Unit’s parent institution, was closed in 1995,[1] as was Merrifield itself.[11] The entire site is now occupied by the newly built village of Cotford St Luke.[8] Merrifield is succeeded by the Orchard Lodge Young People's Unit located in Cotford St Luke.[9] References and allusions in literatureIn her memoir, The Light in My Mind,[10] Joyce Passmore writes of being admitted to Merrifield in 1957 at the age of 13 suffering with epilepsy, prior to being transferred to the main adult hospital.[11] The novel Delivered Unto Lions[12] by David Austin is based on the experiences of a Merrifield patient in the 1970s.[13] See also
References1. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.countyasylums.co.uk/tone-vale-tauton/|title=Tone Vale|publisher=County Asylums|accessdate=3 November 2018}} 2. ^{{cite journal|title=Obituary|pmc=1496215 | pages=673–674 | volume=284|issue=6316|journal=British Medical Journal (Clinical research ed.)|doi=10.1136/bmj.284.6316.673}} 3. ^1 {{cite journal|title=Obituary|pmc=1498317 | pages=1416–1417 | volume=284|issue=6326|journal=British Medical Journal (Clinical research ed.)|doi=10.1136/bmj.284.6326.1416}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1961/nov/29/psychotic-and-maladjusted-children |title=Psychotic and Maladjusted Children |publisher=Hansard|date=29 November 1961|accessdate=3 November 2018}} 5. ^1 Hinton, David, & Clarke, Fred. (Eds.). (1997). The Tone Vale story: a century of care. Bishop's Lydeard: Rocket Publishing. p. 43. {{ISBN|1-899995-05-6}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://pb.rcpsych.org/cgi/reprint/8/6/NP.pdf|title=BJ Psych Bulletin|publisher=University of Cambridge Press}} 7. ^Elsevier Heath Sciences. (1976). The medical directory, 1976: general alphabetical list A - Mac & Mad - Z, Part 1. Oxford, UK: Churchill Livingstone. p. 156. {{ISBN|978-0-443-01440-6}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.exmoorian.co.uk/cotford-st-luke.htm |title=Cotford St Luke|publisher=The Exmoorian|accessdate=3 November 2018}} 9. ^Farr, Hannah, & O’Herlihy, Anne. (Compilers). (2004, November). Child & adolescent mental health in-patients units in England, Scotland, Wales and Belfast: unit directory (2nd ed.). London: College Research Unit of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. p. 32. 10. ^Passmore, Joyce. (2010). The Light in My Mind. Yeovil, UK: Speak Up Somerset. {{ISBN|978-0-9549772-5-2}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100913213254/http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/news/fight-life-hospital-hell/article-2617524-detail/article.html|title=My fight back to life after being tricked into hospital hell|publisher=Somerset Live|date=10 September 2010|accessdate=3 November 2018}} 12. ^Austin, David. (2010). Delivered Unto Lions. Dooagh, Ireland: CheckPoint Press. {{ISBN|978-1-906628-21-5}} 13. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.thisisthewestcountry.co.uk/news/somerset_news/8623308.Tone_Vale_children_s_unit_remembered_in_novel/ |title=Tone Vale children's unit remembered in novel|publisher=This is The West Country|date=8 November 2010|accessdate=3 November 2018}} External links
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