Silent Minority part 2
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- 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
I worked 12 months (civil service instead of compulsory military) in a mental hospital, with patients from 20 to 90 years of age. It has been tough and demanding, but the most "humanizing" and life changing experience.
I work with Learning Disabled adults, some of which came from places like this. We had to watch this as part of our training- suffice to say everyone was in tears by the end of it.....
true but they knew a documentary team was there. This is them on their best behaviour. I bet all kinds of abuse went on in these places, that will never be spoken about.
I think these people are aware of everything that's going on round them. They just can't tell you, many don't even get a chance too.
Utterly bloody heartbreaking.
I worked for the pj livesey group at borocourt after it was closed down and sold to them. I've worked in lot's of old listed buildings but this one sticks in my mind the most. Ive still got some photos and things that i found on the premises i also have photos that i had taken over the three years working there. The "cells" was like something you get in films apart from the paintings of animals and stuff on the outside of the rooms that was just strange. I can only guess that they was there to make them feel happy befor they do tests on them.i would love to see some photos of inside the house when it was a hospital if anyone could point me in the right direction. Sorry about my grammar but there's a reason am in the buildings trade.
SB, I am currently doing some research on Borocourt, could I speak to you about the pictures etc you till have from there? Contact me on jmgagency@aol.com please if you can help.
@@josegriffin9040 are you still about Jose? Am so sorry it's taken so long to reply i only seen this message after someone else asked about the same things and I flicked though the rest of the videos and seen your comment. If you still need me let me know I will keep checking back for a couple of week's
Alot of the more able bodied residents help take care of the residents who can't care for them selfs. Terry Green for years has probably seen these residents pushing them selfs around, and when he was sitting in his first chair thought, and remembered to do the same. Even though it wasn't a regular wheel chair, he still knew that by moving the wheels you can get from one spot to the other. And notice in the photo he's reaching for the wheel in the back! {:)
I never seen humans in this state. How is this today?
@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.
So sad my auntie was a patient from the 60s to her death I went to see her when I 15 in the 80s I was so upset when I left her there :(
Treat the patients as you would like to be treated - why did it take 50 years for Terry to get a wheelchair? One has to ask who some of the spastics are, the residents or the staff?
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
Tragic existence, you would think it was in some underdeveloped or communist country, but its the UK. I was there on uni placement 1986.
A question: why do the patients make noises instead of using words to speak? Is it because they've never learned to speak or is it because they just don't know what to say? Or is it a physical problem? Please could someone answer; I really want to know. Thanks
@bunclip 10yrs later and you prob won't see this, but here goes. Some of these folks may not have the cognitive ability to learn to speak. For some the facial muscles may be too underdeveloped. The tongue may be swollen as a result of the heavy duty psychotropic meds they have been on for years. That is an unfortunate side effect of some of the meds. I've worked in this field in a residential setting for over 10yrs. Many of the residents I've supported have been non verbal, but some learned to sign or say a few very basic words.
@@libra11426 Well 10 years later and I did see it. Great answer and I've learnt a lot. Thanks very much!
Still happens today :'(
@1deenare Sometimes the parents are dead, sometimes they can't cope and sometimes they just don't want to know.
You should watch the American one. Its called Willowbrook State School. Infact that school in America was much more worst. You should watch it. And let me know what you think of it?
A sad existence...
What happened to Terry Green in the end?
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
if you take a normal child and set in a room with nothing it would end up like this to.
after 08.22 is a fukin geg ladz hehehe em boys r goin bucko
you treat them like nothing they will never learn.
But then again, they must have attended some sort of school at some point in their lives, especially the children, so they must have picked up some sort of speech. It doesn't make sense to me.
btw...I hate the word spastic