Stoneyetts Hospital

Stoneyetts Hospital
NHS Greater Glasgow
Stoneyetts Hospital grounds, 1992
Location within North Lanarkshire
Geography
Location	Gartferry Road,Moodiesburn, Scotland
Coordinates	55°55′08″N 4°05′23″W / 55.9188°N 4.0897°W / 55.9188; -4.0897Coordinates: 55°55′08″N 4°05′23″W / 55.9188°N 4.0897°W / 55.9188; -4.0897
Organisation
Care system	NHS Scotland
Hospital type	Psychiatric hospital
Services
Beds	340 (1954) 180 (1991)
History
Founded	6 June 1913
Closed	19 February 1992
Links
Lists	Hospitals in Scotland

Stoneyetts Hospital (previously Stoneyetts Certified Institution for Mental Defectives) was a psychiatric hospital located in Moodiesburn, near Glasgow. It operated from 1913 to 1992.

Stoneyetts was chartered in 1910 and designed by Glasgow Parish Council's Master of Works, Robert Tannock, with the foundation stone being laid by council chairman James Cunningham on 23 May 1912. The hospital was built on a 46½ acre site, purchased by the council from the District Lunacy Board, at East Muckcroft within the "Woodilee estate"; the total cost of the project was £45,000 (including a cost of £70 per bed). The facility contained six 50-bed brick villas; official, administrative and laundry blocks; housing for staff; and a hall with various workrooms that accommodated 320 people (the functions of the hospital buildings and rooms would change over the years). Cunningham conducted the opening ceremony on 6 June 1913. Originally intended for the treatment of people with epilepsy, Stoneyetts was the first Poor Law epileptic colony in Scotland and the only Scottish hospital ever built for epileptic individuals. A remote location was chosen in order to shield patients from the general public.

Following the passing of the Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act 1913, Stoneyetts became a facility for intellectually disabled people – then termed "mental defectives" – who had been held in asylums for the insane. As well as housing civilians, Stoneyetts received convicts who had been deemed mentally "defective"; Glasgow Govan MP Neil Maclean disapproved of "young lads, guilty merely of a little horse-play or a boyish escapade" being held at the institution. The facility faced problems with overcrowding: arrangements were made with Falkirk Parish Council for patients to be cared for at Blinkbonny Home, and the remaining residents were transferred to the new Lennox Castle Hospital by December 1936. Following restoration, Stoneyetts was re-opened as a unit for certified mental patients on 7 August 1937. With the inception of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, the facility was linked with Woodilee and Gartloch hospitals under the Board of Management for Glasgow North-Eastern Mental Hospitals. In 1954 there were 340 staffed beds.