| AdminHistory | After the outbreak of World War II the Emergency Medical Services took over a significant part of the hospital. Existing patients were accommodated in other wards or were evacuated to the mental hospitals at Wakefield or Storthes Hall. At the end of the war the hospital suffered from overcrowded conditions and more patients were transferred elsewhere.
Section 50 of the Civil Defence Act, 1939, empowered the Minister of Health to make arrangements to secure that, in the event of war, facilities would be available for the treatment in hospital of casualties occurring in Great Britain from hostile attack; to provide that, the arrangements could provide for the removal of persons of unsound mind and mental defectives from the place in which they were being treated or maintained and for their treatment or maintenance elsewhere. |