Catalogue description DONCASTER, ST. CATHERINE'S HOSPITAL

This record is held by Doncaster Archives

Details of HR4
Reference: HR4
Title: DONCASTER, ST. CATHERINE'S HOSPITAL
Description:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

HR4/1/1-1/5 COPY MINUTES AND ANNUAL REPORTS 1928-1948

 

HR4/2/1-2/6 ANNUAL REPORTS 1931-1948

 

HR4/3/1 JOINT CONSULTATIVE STAFFS COMMITTEE 1951

 

HR4/4/1 LOG BOOK 1933-1935
Date: 1928-1951
Held by: Doncaster Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

St Catherine's Hospital, Doncaster
Immediate source of acquisition:

Acc. 990, 1054
Subjects:
  • Doncaster, Yorkshire
  • Dewsbury, Yorkshire
  • Halifax, Yorkshire
  • Huddersfield, Yorkshire
  • Rotheram, Yorkshire
  • Mental health
Administrative / biographical background:

The South-West Yorkshire Joint Board for the Mentally Defective was established under the provisions of the Mental Deficiency Acts of 1913 and 1927. Its members were the county boroughs of Dewsbury, Doncaster, Halifax, Huddersfield and Rotherham.

 

At its first meeting in October 1928 it decided to purchase St Catherine's Hall and its estate of some 115 acres on the south-west outskirts of Doncaster and in the parish of Loversall for use as a 'colony for mental defectives'. This was known as the St Catherine's Institution. The institution was vested in the National Health Service in 1948.

 

The minutes held at Doncaster Archives are copies. The original minutes are held at Rotherham Archives, which also holds other records including orders of the Ministry of Health, annual reports, ledgers and a register of patients from the 1930s.
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