Beds at Guy's
built 1720s - opened 1726 - 100 beds and 51 staff - including a butler and a man to kill the bed bugs
originally intended to admit 'incurables' from St Thomas's - 'incurably ill and hopelessly insane'
Soon became a general hospital
Bed bugs still problem 1780 when John Howard (prison reform) made a visit - he praised - iron bedsteads, ventilation, sanitation, use of hot/cold/vapour baths
1744 - new lunatic house built
1780s increased public awareness and sympathy for mental illness - owing George III
1550 - establishment of St Thomas Hospital Medical School
1825 - Guy's est separate Medical School
