Silent Minority part 2

Silent Minority, aired on british television June 1981. The documentary spotlights alledgedly appalling conditions at Borocourt Hospital, Reading, Berks and St Lawrences Hospital Caterham, Surrey.

St Lawrences Hospital

In 1974, the hospital came to public attention with the publication of the book Tongue Tied by Joseph ('Joey') John Deacon who had been a patient at the hospital since the age of eight in 1928. This was followed by the TV documentary Silent Minority in which the hospital featured in an unfavourable light.

The documentary brought out strong feelings at the time given the content which in one scene shows a child tied to a pole in a ward.

www.highroydshospital.co.uk

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• silent minority
• Caterham Mental Hospital
• high royds

[jb55101]

you treat them like nothing they will never learn.

[vwcaddylowrider]

i appreciate that this video was aired so long ago,but i also follow the posters videos re desolate buildings,and adore the work..i will say this video is both educational and at the same time so very upsetting,but never the less educational which is myu=uch needed even in todays society.good post friend..

[lexichronicle2]

2:10 Is that a Buddhist monk I hear in the background, or someone in a high dependency psychiatric ward?

[DeeDee1957]

Kind of interest, no abuse seen at St Lawrences as seen at Winterbourne. In fact nurses are actually tenderly helping them......how far we have come indeed

[yellowbelly06]

@1deenare Sometimes the parents are dead, sometimes they can't cope and sometimes they just don't want to know.

[yellowbelly06]

@samanthagower

Surprisingly this documentary was made by ITV. I know that it this day of bilge like Britain's Got Talent that ITV could make powerful programmes like this but once upon a time they did, they made many of them and they made them well.

[SuperShammii]

Terrys story absolutely broke my heart. 50years in a wheelchair, 10years on a beanbag, 2hours in a wheelchair he can move and give him a taste of a bit of independence and then back to his own wheelchair.... four months and waiting for one he can move. That is torture.

[1deenare]

Oh my... these children are just blind...why are they in an institution? i Mean why are any of them there...where are there parents???

[MonktE]

its so horrible to see them rocking like that.

[samanthagower]

Spastic was a common term used to describe patients with cerebral palsy whose limbs were spastic. Although it became a term of abuse it wasn't intended that way, certainly not by the BBC