Catalogue description Records of Whittingham Hospital

This record is held by Lancashire Archives

Details of HRW
Reference: HRW
Title: Records of Whittingham Hospital
Date: 1865-1977
Arrangement:

Committee Minutes and Reports

 

HRW/1. Minutes of Committee of Visitors

 

HRW/2. Report books of Committee of Visitors

 

HRW/3. Reports of Medical Superindendent; and Reports of Commissioners of Board of Control

 

HRW/4. Minutes of Hospital Management Committee

 

HRW/5. Minutes of Finance Committee

 

HRW/6. Minutes of Sub-Committee

 

Record of Patients

 

HRW/7. Registers of Patients; Registers of Admissions

 

HRW/8. Medical Journals

 

HRW/9. Medical Registers

 

HRW/10. Notice of Death books

 

HRW/11. Registers of Deaths; Mortuary & Funeral Books

 

HRW/12. Reception Orders

 

HRW/13. Continuation Order Books

 

HRW/14. Registers of Departures, Discharges & Transfers; Registers of Transfers and Lapsed Orders

 

HRW/15. Visiting Committee (later Hospital Management Committee) Discharge Order Books

 

HRW/16. Visitors' (later Management Committee Members') Trial Absence Permission Book; Patients' [Private Interview] Book

 

HRW/17. Accident Books

 

HRW/18. Index Books

 

HRW/19. Case Books; Identification Books

 

HRW/20. Register of Mechanical Restraint; Register of Escapes and Captures

 

HRW/21. Register of Patients' Weights

 

HRW/22. Returns of Patients Books; Register of Daily Change of Patient Population

 

HRW/23. Indexes to Patients' Ration & Clothing Books; Register of Patients' Property

 

Annual Reports

 

HRW/24. Printed Annual Reports

 

Financial & Administrative Records

 

HRW/25. Wages & Salaries Books; Contributions of Employees Book

 

HRW/26. Attendants' & Servants' Engagement and Discharge Books

 

HRW/27. Income Journals

 

HRW/28. Service Patients' Account Books

 

HRW/29. Farm Report Books; Farm Livestock Book

 

HRW/30. Management Committee Accounts

 

HRW/31. Account Book (various)

 

HRW/32. Building Engineer' Stores Stocktaking Book

 

HRW/33. Postage Book

 

Other Records

 

HRW/34. Advertisement Cuttings Book

 

HRW/35. Photographs of Patients

 

HRW/36. Miscellaneous

Related material:

See also QAM 3

Held by: Lancashire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Whittingham Hospital

Physical description: 420 files and volumes
Access conditions:

Records containing medical information about patients are closed for 100 years. However, in cases where the patient was born more than 100 years ago, staff can extract details from closed records and send to the searcher by post. Fee payable; please ask.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by the Secretary

 

8 October 1974

 

Acc.3470

 

Acc 4460

Subjects:
  • Whittingham, Lancashire
  • Health services
  • Mental health
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