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London Metropolitan Archives

NAPSBURY HOSPITAL


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): H50

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: NAPSBURY HOSPITAL

Date(s): 1898-1947

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 11.6 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Napsbury Hospital

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Napsbury Hospital opened in 1905 as Napsbury Asylum, a metropolitan asylum. In 1918 it became Napsbury Mental Hospital and had another change of name in 1943 when it became known as Napsbury Hospital. In 1948 the hospital came under the management of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board until 1974 when it became part of the North West Thames Regional Health Authority. The hospital closed in 1999.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Napsbury Hospital including minutes of the Standing Sub-committee of Visitors, 1898-1947; Sub-committee minutes, 1940-1941; Shenley and Napsbury Group minutes, 1948; Finance and General Purposes Committee, 1948-1949; hospital statistics, 1951-1970; admission registers, 1904-1951; death registers, 1933-1948; departure registers, 1931-1948; discharge registers, 1910-1961; general registers, 1948-1964; medical journals, 1915-1925; case books, 1905-1911; medical registers, 1940-1948; registers of daily patients, 1964-1972; some correspondence concerning patients, 1951-1953; register of mechanical restraint 1948-1952 and service patients' bill book, 1946-1952.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

These records are arranged according to a classification scheme for hospital records: General Hospital Administration (A), Patients' Administration (B), Finance Office (D), Endowments (E), Related Documentation (Y) and Prints and Photographs (PH).

Conditions governing access:

These records are open to public inspection, although under section 5(4) of the 1958 Public Records Act administrative records are closed for 30 years and patient records for 100 years.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: Depositor

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

B98/160

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Records relating to the hospital held in the London Metropolitan Archive are among the records of the Middlesex County Councils Mental Hospitals Committee and its predecessors 1898-1945 and the Middlesex County Councils Mental Health Committee 1945-1948.

Administrative and clinical records, 1927 - 1956, can be found at the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, Euston Road, London. Records for British, colonial and US forces patients from the First World War can be found at The National Archives, Kew.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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: February 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Hospital administration | Hospitals | Health services
Medical history | Personal history | History
Mentally disabled | Disabled persons | Disadvantaged groups
Psychiatric hospital patients | Patients | Health services
Psychiatric hospitals | Hospitals | Health services
Medical institutions

Personal names

Corporate names
Napsbury Hospital x Napsbury Asylum x Napsbury Mental Hospital

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Napsbury | St Albans | Hertfordshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe