South Ockendon Hospital : echoes from an Essex learning disability institution (1932-1994) / Randal Bingley.

"From its beginning during the inter-war years, South Ockendon Hospital provided a service to people with learning disabilities for more than two generations. Originally known as South Ockendon Colony, the hospital closed in 1994; its service, once seen as necessary, having finally outlived the philosophy on which it was built. this is the hospital's own story: a chronicle of successes, failings, high expectations and, at times, despair."-- From back cover.