Catalogue description Records of St John's Hospital, Bracebridge, formerly, the Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum.
This record is held by Lincolnshire Archives
Reference: | HOSP/ST.JOHN'S |
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Title: | Records of St John's Hospital, Bracebridge, formerly, the Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum. |
Description: |
Records of St. John's Hospital, Bracebridge |
Arrangement: |
SUMMARY OF SECTIONS HOSP/ST JOHN'S 1. Administrative Records HOSP/ST JOHN'S 2. Medical Records HOSP/ST JOHN'S 3. Emergency Hospital |
Related material: |
For additional records relating to the asylum 1844-1856, see Kesteven Quarter Sessions, Reference: KQS 2/5/3. |
Held by: | Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
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Physical description: | 53 sub-series |
Access conditions: |
Medical records and other records of patients are closed for 100 years from the date of the last entry. Permission to view more recent records should be addressed in writing to the Principal Keeper, who will liaise with the relevant authorities. |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
HOSP/ST JOHN'S 1/3/1-2, 1/4/1, 1/5/1-11, 1/6/1 & 6-7, 1/7/1-72, 1/9/1-13, 1/10/1-39, 2/3/1-2, 2/4/1-5, 2/7/10-11, 2/9/21-23, 2/12/1, 2/17/2, 2/18/1, 2/20/1-8, 2/21/4-6, 8-9, 13 & 19-20, 2/22/1, 2/23/1-10, 2/24/3, 2/26/1 and 3/2/1 deposited by the Administrator, St John's Hospital, Bracebridge Heath, Lincoln on 1 October 1985. (Acc 85/124.) HOSP/ST JOHN'S 1/1/28 & 30, 1/4/4-7, 1/6/2-4 & 8, 1/7/73, 1/8/1-3, 1/11/1-20, 1/12/1-7, 1/13/1-18, 1/14/1-18, 1/18/1-5, 1/19/1, 1/20/1, 1/21/1, 2/1/1-10, 2/8/1, 2/17/1, 2/25/1-10, 2/29/1 & 3-6, and 2/30/1 deposited by Mrs S Jones (HCO Medical Records), St John's Hospital, Bracebridge Heath on 21 November 1985. (Acc 85/158.) HOSP/ST JOHN'S 2/15 (part) deposited by North Lincolnshire Area Health Authority, St John's Hospital, Bracebridge Heath on 25 October 1989. (Acc 89/170.) [Most case files in the range 10016-13159] HOSP/ST JOHN'S 1/1/1-27 & 29, 1/2/1-2, 1/3/3-5, 1/4/2-3, 1/5/12-14, 1/15/1-2, 1/17/1-6, 1/19/2-3, 2/2/1-15, 2/5/1-18, 2/6/1-11, 2/7/1-8, 2/9/1-20, 2/10/1-11, 2/11/1, 2/12/2, 2/13/1-29, 2/14/1-6, 2/15 (part), 2/16/1-21, 2/17/3, 2/18/2-3, 2/19/1-2, 2/21/1-3, 7, 10-12 & 14-18, 2/22/2-7, 2/24/1-2, 2/27/1-3, 2/28/1-18, 2/29/2 and 3/1/1 deposited by the Lincoln County Hospital (Mental Health Care Unit), Peter Hodgkinson Centre, Lincoln County Hospital on 7 December 1992. (Acc 92/176.) HOSP/ST JOHN'S 1/16/2 deposited by Lincoln County Hospital, Peter Hodgkinson Centre on 10 August 1994. (Acc 94/094.) HOSP/ST JOHN'S 1/16/1 deposited by Lincoln District Healthcare NHS Trust, Directorate of Estates and Support Services on 12 December 1994. (Acc 94/142.) |
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Administrative / biographical background: |
formerly, the Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum. The Asylum was built in 1852 and enlarged on several subsequent occasions. It was originally established jointly by Lindsey, Kesteven, Holland, Lincoln, Grimsby and Stamford, and managed by a Board of Visitors appointed by the contributing authorities. Kesteven and Grantham withdrew from the arrangement when the contract of Union expired in 1893 (eventually establishing the Kesteven County Asylum at South Rauceby, 1897). The hospital was set in grounds of 120 acres which included gardens, farmland and a burial ground. In 1940 female patients were transferred to other hospitals, mainly Storthes Hall near Huddersfield, to make space for an Emergency Hospital, and many did not return until well after the end of the War. Administration of the hospital passed to the National Health Service in 1948. By the early 1960s it was known by its final name of St John's Hospital. Patients were admitted from Harmston Hall Hospital when that hospital closed. St John's Hospital itself was closed in December 1989 with the remaining patients transferred to other establishments. The site was sold for housing and most of the buildings apart from the central block were demolished. The following names, among others, were used for the Institution, sometimes interchangeably: 1852-1893 Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum or Lincolnshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum 1894-1915 Lincolnshire Lunatic Asylum 1897-1898 Lindsey, Holland, Lincoln and Grimsby District Pauper Lunatic Asylum 1903-1920 Lincolnshire Asylum 1898-1902 Bracebridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum 1902-1919 Bracebridge District Lunatic Asylum 1919-1948 Bracebridge Mental Hospital 1930-1938 Lincolnshire Mental Hospital 1939-1960 Bracebridge Heath Hospital 1961-1989 St John's Hospital, Bracebridge Heath The hospital was also used as a wartime Emergency Hospital in the period 1940-1943, and a few records of this function survive with the asylum records. |
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