Hospital
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The hospital was built by the Corporation of London at Stone near Dartford, Kent under the provisions of the Lunatic Asylums Act 1853 during the years 1862 - 1866. It was designed by James Bunstone Bunning, the City's Clerk of the Works (later City Architect and Surveyor), and opened as the City of London Lunatic Asylum on 16th April 1866. Later additions were made to the hospital which from 1924 was formally known as the City of London Mental Hosital. The Committee of Visitors had originally been composed of the Aldermen and Recorder as Justices, but under the Local Government Act 1888 the Justices powers and duties passed to the City's Court of Common Council which appointed 12 of its members to be the Visiting Committee. 2 Women were added to the committee from jan 1931 (Under the Mental Treatment Act 1930). The direct administrative link with the corporation of London was maintained until 1948 when the hospital was transferred to the minister of Health under the National Health Service Act 1946.