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London Metropolitan Archives

BANSTEAD HOSPITAL


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): H22/BAN

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: BANSTEAD HOSPITAL

Date(s): 1835-1985

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 37.88 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Banstead Hospital xx Banstead Asylum | 1877 - 1918 xx Banstead Mental Hospital | 1918 - 1937 xx Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Banstead Hospital opened in 1877 as the third lunatic asylum for the county of Middlesex. It was under the general control of the Middlesex justices of the peace until 1889 when, on the establishment of the London County Council it passed into their hands.

In 1948 the hospital came under the South West Metropolitan Hospital Board and the Banstead Hospital Management Committee, which lasted until 1974. With the reorganisation of the National Health Service the hospital came under the management of the North West Thames Regional Health Authority and the North East Health District until 1982 when it became part of the Victoria District Health Authority and finally the Riverside Health Authority in 1985 prior to its closure in 1986.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Banstead Hospital, including committee papers, 1877-1949; Hospital Visitor files, 1877-1970; patient administration and statistics, 1877-1974; emergency arrangements, 1939-1940; admission and discharge registers, 1835-1978; burial registers, 1877-1955; treatment registers, 1890-1967; post mortem registers, 1907-1959; staff records, 1877-1965, financial records, 1873-1950 and photographs, 1985.

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:

ACC/2331/2, ACC/2387, ACC/2389, ACC/2478, ACC/3691, B98/205

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

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Related material:

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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
History of medicine | History
Hospital administration | Hospitals | Health services
Hospital patients | People by roles | People
Lunatics | People by roles | People
Medical history | Personal history | History
Psychiatric hospital patients | Patients | Health services
Psychiatric hospitals | Hospitals | Health services
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Medical institutions

Personal names

Corporate names
Banstead Hospital x Banstead Asylum | 1877-1918 x Banstead Mental Hospital | 1918-1937 x Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum

Places
Banstead | Surrey | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe