article_snippet: It was situated in close proximity to Bethlem Royal Hospital - the first dedicated psychiatric institution in Europe – and was used to bury London’s poor and religious non-conformists as well as inmates from the asylum.
article_snippet: As well as being used to bury those who were struck down with disease, As well as being used to bury those who were struck down with disease also became the site for those who passed away at the nearby Bethlem Royal Hospital - which is thought to have been the world's first mental asylum.
article_snippet: However, with mental patients showing no physical symptoms of illness, determining which of the remains belonged to those treated at the nearby Bethlem Royal Hospital - which is thought to have been the world's first mental asylum will be near impossible for experts.
article_snippet: The graveyard, built on Bethlem Hospital’s vegetable patch in the 1560s after churchyards around the city started to overflow, was used to bury London’s poor and religious non-conformists as well as inmates from the asylum.
article_snippet: Bethlem Royal Hospital, which quickly became pronounced
article_snippet: The scene inside Bethlem Royal Hospital, as depicted by William Hogarth in The Rake's Progress .
article_snippet: Due to Bethlem Royal Hospital's reputation as the principle treatment centre for the insane, a bastardised version of its name - 'Bedlam' - came to signify madness and chaos more generally.
article_snippet: Conditions inside Bedlam were depicted by William Hogarth in William Hogarth 18th century drawings A Rake’s Progress, charting the decline of a merchant’s son from wealthy heir to asylum inmate, via debtor’s jail.
article_snippet: Bethlem moved again in 1815, to St George's Fields in Southwark, which is now the site of Museum of London Archaeology.
article_snippet: A final move came in 1930 when Bethlem Royal Hospital relocated to the suburb of Bromley.