Napsbury Mental Hospital, St Albans
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0120 GC/135 |
Held at | : Wellcome Library Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ › |
Full title | : Napsbury Mental Hospital, St Albans |
Date(s) | : 1927-1956 |
Level of description | : Collection |
Extent | : 3 boxes |
Name of creator(s) | : Napsbury Mental Hospital | St Albans |
Detailed catalogue | : Click here to view repository detailed catalogue |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Founded in 1905 as Napsbury Asylum, under Middlesex County Council. Became Napsbury Mental Hospital after the end of the First World War.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Napsbury Asylum papers comprising: procedure book, reports from Pathological Department, 1930s, investigation into typhoid carriers in the Hospital, 1934, study of 16 cases of cerebral tumour, 1935; articles and cuttings relating to psychiatry and neurology, 1927-1956.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Arranged as follows: A. Typescript volumes: procedures book, reports, studies into typhoid carriers and cerebral tumour. B. Articles, reprints, and cuttings.
Conditions governing access:
Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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:
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
These items were received from Penny Shapland, Librarian of the Hospital, the volumes (Section A) in February 1987 and the cuttings collection (Section B) in September 1990. Acc.256 received on 26/02/1987, acc.422 in Sep 1990.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Records of the hospital 1898-1974 now in London Metropolitan Archives (includes materials formerly held by Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies), with additional material in the records of the Middlesex County Council (MCC) Mental Hospitals Committee and predecessor bodies, 1898-1945 and the MCC Mental Health Committee. Admission and discharge registers during its use as a military hospital 1915-1918 are in The National Archives, class MH106.
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.
Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions:
January 2009
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