Camberwell House Asylum

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 MSS.6220-6221
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Camberwell House Asylum
Date(s)	: 1847-1853
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Camberwell House Asylum
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Camberwell House Asylum was founded in 1846 by John Hayball Paul (1816-1899), who was also medical superintendent, 1846-1899. Paul entered into partnership with F.G. Aubin and Alfred Richards as Aubin and Co., this firm being the official owner of the asylum at one period. During the span of these case books the asylum admitted mainly pauper patients. It closed in 1955.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Volumes 2-3 of the case books of Camberwell House, a private lunatic asylum (metropolitan licensed house) at Camberwell, Surrey, 1847-1953. The casebooks contain records for approximately 900 people; they are unindexed. Volume 2 contains records for people admitted 1847-1850 with further notes on the some of the same patients through 1876. Volume 3 contains admission records for 1850-1853 with further records on some of the same patients through 1887.

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.

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:

Formerly in the collection of Dr R.A. Hunter.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased from R D Gurney Ltd, 1981 (acc. 334939).

Allied Materials

Related material:

At other repositories: Vol. 1 of the Camberwell House case books, 1846-1847, and the Visitors' Book of Commissioners in Lunacy, 1846-1865, are held at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, London.

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