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Reginald
Arthur Farndale 20 April 1915 to 1996
FAR00822A
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Cheshire
1915
Reginald Arthur Farndale was born on
20 Apr 1915 (1939 Register). There is no
official record of his birth. I wonder if he might have been the son of Robert
and Sarah (nee Samuels) Farndale (FAR00455)
who moved to Cheshire, and perhaps his illness meant his birth was never
registered?
1926
There was a tragic case regarding Reginald,
aged 11, and a child in a river in Chester reported in the Evening Herald (Dublin) 22 October 1926; Leicester Evening Mail 22 October 1926; Grimsby Daily Telegraph 22 October 1926; and The Vote, 26 November 1926.
1939
1939 Register –
Cranage Hall Institution, Congleton, Cheshire.
Reginald A Farndale, born 29 April
1915, patient, in the language of the age ‘certified mentally defective’.
Cranage Hall and its
estate were bought in 1929 by the Cheshire Joint Board for the Mentally
Defective, which was constituted in 1928 under Section 29 of the Mental
Deficiency Act, 1913 and consisted of representatives of the County Council and
of the County Boroughs of Birkenhead and Wallasey and the City of Chester. The
Hospital was opened in August 1932 to accommodate 62 female mentally-defective
patients. In 1948, with the establishment of the National Health Service, the
Hospital was transferred to the control of the Cranage Hall Hospital Management
Committee of the Manchester Regional Hospital Board. By 1952, the Hospital had
520 beds for male and female patients. On the reorganisation of the NHS in
1974, the Hospital was transferred to the Cheshire Area Health Authority, and
on its abolition in 1982, to Crewe District Health Authority. It now (1988) has
375 beds for mentally handicaped patients.
The Hospital Management Committee also managed the Mary Dendy
Hospital (for further details and lists of records see NHM 11) and Wrenbury
Hostel and Tabley Hostel. Wrenbury was originally a tuberculosis training
colony established by Cheshire County Council in 1920, but by 1951 both it and
Tabley were administered by the National Association of Mental Health. On 1
April 1951 they were transferred to the National Health Service. Both hostels
were closed in 1981.
1996
Reginald Arthur Farndale, born 20
April 1915 died South Cheshire District in February 1996 (DR).