Here is my last brain tickler. You may say it's "last licks" to my Berbician friends.
At Fort Canje there is an institution commonly called Berbice Mad House or BMH. What was the original name of that institution?
Lunatic Asylum
by Achal Prabhala
Stabroek News
July 28, 2002
http://www.landofsixpeoples.com/news022/ns2072813.htm
Asylum Street, on a quiet road opposite the Berbice High School, houses what is now called the National Psychiatric Hospital, the only institution of its kind in Guyana. The buildings and grounds that it occupies were once camps for Dutch and English armies. Later, it was christened the ‘Lunatic Asylum,’ hence the name of the street on which it is located.
There is still abundant evidence of those times, when psychiatry hadn’t developed to what it is now. On the third floor of the Victoria Building - now in disuse - was the electrical therapy ward, where patients would be subjected to shock therapy.
At one point, aggressive patients were permanently kept in sack-like clothing, which did not allow them to move their arms at all. During recreation, these patients were chained to trees.
I need the exact original name.