Details: Eastgate House, Lincoln

Eastgate House 

Lincoln  

Yes 

According to information here http://www.institutions.org.uk/asylums/england/LIN/lincolnshire_asylums.htm, on Eastgate House 'Robert Gardiner Hill esq, FSA, one of the city surgeons, has an excellent Private Lunatic Asylum at his residence, called Eastgate House. During 1835 & several Succeeding years, he was house surgeon at Lincoln Lunatic Asylum, & it was there that this eminent philanthropist first carried out the present humane "system of non-restraint in lunacy" & discarded the strait waistcoats, the iron shackles, & other instruments, with which the more refractory patients were sometimes tortured into confirmed madness; when kindness & vigilant attention to health, cleanliness, & comfort, would either have restored them to sanity or have made them happy & peaceful residents of the asylum.' There is now an Eastgate House Care Home in Lincoln but there is no indication that this is a successor to the earlier one.