Warlingham Park Hospital

[1] The hospital was extended in the early 20th century with the addition of a nurses' home, two further blocks for female patients and four villas.

[5] Crumbie performed 20 leucotomies with the instrument, it tended to catch small blood vessels causing cerebral haemorrhaging, resulting in the deaths of two patients.

[6] The hospital also had a specialist Regional unit to treat patients suffering from alcohol dependency, Pinel House.

[2] The archives were deposited with the Bethlem Royal Hospital which subsequently became the primary provider of mental health care to residents of Croydon.

[8] Although the Grade II listed water tower was retained,[9] the remainder of the buildings were demolished to make way for an up-market housing estate known as Greatpark.

Leucotome designed by Neurosurgeon John Crumbie, 1955 [ 3 ]