- Catalogue ID: 2025.078.FPC
- Item: Three Counties Hospital red plastic money token.
- Description: Three Counties Hospital cash tokens could only be spent within the hospital, and many patients were paid this way. The only cash they had would have been given to them by a visiting friend or relative. Alan 'S' remembered being paid 7/6d a week in white tokens with 2/6d written on them for working in the garden and farm.
- Comment: Patients were paid in tokens rather than real money to stop them absconding by bus or taxi.
- Link: https://www.threecountiesasylum.co.uk/index.php/artefacts/three-counties-hospital-cash-tokens
