Holloway Sanatorium Hospital for the Insane, Virginia Water, Surrey
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0120 MSS.5157-5163, 8159-8160 |
Held at | : Wellcome Library Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ › |
Full title | : Holloway Sanatorium Hospital for the Insane, Virginia Water, Surrey |
Date(s) | : 1889-1926 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 9 volumes |
Name of creator(s) | : Holloway Sanatorium Hospital for the Insane |
Detailed catalogue | : Click here to view repository detailed catalogue |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Founded by Thomas Holloway (1800-1883), the hospital opened in 1885 as an asylum for the middle and upper classes. It closed in 1981.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Case books, containing notes on patients by the medical staff of Holloway Sanatorium Hospital for the Insane, 1889-1926, often accompanied by photographs. Inserted loose in the volumes are letters written by patients, temperature charts, death notices etc.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. Please note, however, that MS.5161 is closed for data protection reasons until 1 January 2011.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Finding aids:
Described in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Acc. 343440 Purchased from Jenner Books, 1984; Acc 1246 purchased from Ray Savill, May 2004.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions:
In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions:
Jan 2009
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