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Devon County Lunatic Asylum, Exminster... Devon County Lunatic Asylum, Exminster, 1845-1987
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Devon County Lunatic Asylum, Exminster, 1845-1987
Repository
Devon Heritage Centre
Reference number
3769A
Description
UNCATALOGUED ACCESSIONS:
(acc 5719-0)
Case files, mental health, c.1983-1986.
(acc 7021)
Night inspectors Report books 1938- 40, 1961- 62; night report book 1964- 1965; day and night report book 1960- 1961; matron's summarys of evening reports 1964- 1965; reqisition for pharmaceutical supplies 1984; guidelines for ordering drugs, 8 volumes and papers.
part of accession 8507 (Devon Hospitals), comprising the following:
Confederation of Health Service Employees, Royal Devon branch, minutes, 1959-1966 (1 vol)
Alphabetical register of patients, 1890s-c1919, 1940s-1960s (5 vols)
Admissions, 1959-1960, 1959-1962 (2 vols)
Admissions (informal), 1960-1961 (1 vol)
Admissions (male), 1962-1965 (1 vol)
Admissions (female), 1962-1964, 1964-1965 (2 vols)
Discharges and deaths (male), 1962-1964 (1 vol)
Head male nurse summary of evening reports, 1947-1948 (1 vol)
Matron's summary of evening reports, 1965-1966 (1 vol)
Statistical summaries, 1965-1969 (1 vol)
Wages book, 1933 (1 vol)
Date
1845-1987
Format
Documents, Volumes, Maps/Plans, Artefacts
Access status
Restricted
Access conditions
CONTACT US BEFORE VISITING. Information relating to an individual's mental or physical health is considered special category (sensitive) data. Medical records are therefore closed for 100 years. Some staff records may also be closed (usually for 84 years). Access to the information contained in these records can be requested in certain circumstances (the main exemptions being if you are the data subject or if proof can be provided that the data subject is deceased). [UK Data Protection legislation: DPA/GDPR/FOI(s40)]
Level
Fonds
Related material
There are Visiting Justices' reports, 1847-1908, and minutes, 1841-1926, as well as other related material in the Devon County Quarter Sessions' records. The collection also contains some admission papers and other records of Digby Hospital, Exeter (see 4034 A, 4034A-1 and 4034 A-2), as well as minutes of Devon Mental Hospital Management Committee (responsible for Exminster, Wonford House and Digby Hospitals), 1953-1961.
Admin history
Commonly known as Exminster Hospital, it was finally commissioned in 1841 by Devon Quarter Sessions from the eminent London architect, Charles Fowler, after various attempts to establish a county asylum over the previous 22 years had come to nothing and just before it became mandatory for counties to provide asylums for the mentally ill. J.C. Bucknill, who has been described as a `key figure in the consolidation period of psychiatric reform', was appointed as its first Superintendent and patients were admitted in August 1845. It was then known as Devon County Lunatic Asylum, Exminster.
Transferred to the National Health Service in 1948, it was closed (as Exe Vale Hospital) in July 1986
Creator name
Devon County Lunatic Asylum, Exminster; Exe Vale Hospital, Exminster
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