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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Abigail O'Leary

Inside abandoned mental asylum with doors ripped off hinges and empty body bags

These chilling photos reveal the history of an abandoned mental asylum and mortuary known for its treatment of young children using electroconvulsive therapy.

These images, taken of Hellingly Hospital, East Sussex reveals the chilling remains of what life was like in a psychiatric hospital. Opened in 1898, the asylum was built to combat overcrowding in the Sussex County Asylum.

One image, taken inside the hospital's morgue, shows stacks of empty body trays left with the doors ripped off the hinges to reveal the inside.

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