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Catalogue description Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Special Hospitals, Patients' Files
| Reference: | MH 103 |
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| Title: | Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Special Hospitals, Patients' Files |
| Description: |
This series contains a selection of case files of patients at the special hospitals for the criminally insane, Broadmoor, Rampton and Moss Side. The files contain details of the length of stay, patient reviews, and the repatriation, discharge or death of the patient. |
| Date: | 1913-1981 |
| Related material: |
For further files dealing with special hospitals see MH 150 For case files kept by the Home Office on offenders who were sent to special hospitals see HO 343 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Board of Control, Broadmoor Institution, 1948-1960 Board of Control, Moss Side State Institution, 1934-1960 Board of Control, Rampton State Institution, 1920-1960 Department of Health and Social Security, Broadmoor Hospital, 1968-1988 Department of Health and Social Security, Moss Side Hospital, 1968-1988 Department of Health and Social Security, Rampton Hospital, 1968-1988 Home Office, Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, 1864-1948 Home Office, Rampton Criminal Lunatic Asylum, 1913-1920 Ministry of Health, Broadmoor Institution, 1960-1968 Ministry of Health, Moss Side Hospital, 1960-1968 Ministry of Health, Rampton Hospital, 1960-1968 |
| Physical description: | 309 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 75 year closure |
| Selection and destruction information: | The files are a 10% sample taken in 1974 by selecting every tenth file of those headquarters files relating to Special Hospital patients then surviving. The files were no longer active because they related to patients who were then either dead or who had been repatriated to another country (see PRO 69/276) |
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