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Doris Cook
1902 –1941
Doris Cook
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DORIS COOK; 1902 – 1941
Doris Cook, the youngest daughter of Alice and Charlie Cook, was born in October 1902. She had 4 siblings her father worked as a coachman Ashlyns Hall at and they lived in the stable house.
Sadly, Doris was admitted to the Three Counties Asylum at Arlesey in Bedfordshire. On the 1939 census she is recorded as an inmate and she died a few months after her mother in April 1941. She is buried with her mother in Rectory Lane Cemetery.
Following the enactment of the Mental Treatment Act 1930 the Three Counties Asylum became known as the Three Counties Hospital. At its height in 1936 Fairfield Hospital catered for 1,100 patients, with the grounds of the hospital having increased to 410 acres (1.7 km2) through the purchase of additional farm land. Of these 410 acres 385 were cultivated.
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DORIS COOK; 1902 – 1941
Doris Cook, the youngest daughter of Alice and Charlie Cook, was born in October 1902. She had 4 siblings her father worked as a coachman Ashlyns Hall at and they lived in the stable house.
Sadly, Doris was admitted to the Three Counties Asylum at Arlesey in Bedfordshire. On the 1939 census she is recorded as an inmate and she died a few months after her mother in April 1941. She is buried with her mother in Rectory Lane Cemetery.
Following the enactment of the Mental Treatment Act 1930 the Three Counties Asylum became known as the Three Counties Hospital. At its height in 1936 Fairfield Hospital catered for 1,100 patients, with the grounds of the hospital having increased to 410 acres (1.7 km2) through the purchase of additional farm land. Of these 410 acres 385 were cultivated.
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