Records from Bethlem Royal Hospital, 1559-1932.

Format:

Website/Database

Contributor:

Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England), issuing body.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Bethlem Museum of the Mind, issuing body.

Findmypast Ltd, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)--History--Sources.

Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England).

Mental illness--Treatment--Great Britain--History.

Mental illness.

Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)--Records and correspondence.

Mental illness--Treatment.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Records and correspondence.

Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (7 volumes (329 documents)) : illustrations

Contained In:

British Online Archives

Other Title:

Records from Bedlam.

Place of Publication:

East Ardsley, Wakefield, United Kingdom : Microform Academic Publishers, [2022]

Summary:

Bethlem Royal Hospital is a psychiatric facility in London. It was established as a priory of the Order of St Mary of Bethlehem in 1247, before beginning to care for mentally ill patients sometime in the 14th century. Often referred to colloquially as 'Bedlam'-and generally accepted to be the origin of the very same noun-past incarnations of the institution were infamous for their questionable diagnosis of mental illness and poor treatment of patients. This collection, which has been curated in association with Findmypast and the Museum of the Mind, contains four centuries and 130,000 images worth of records from Bethlem. The records are diverse in both form and subject matter. They include: voluntary and criminal admission registers; discharge and death registers; male and female patient casebooks; minutes of the Court of Governors; and staff salary books. All handwritten items have been fully transcribed.

Contents:

Admission, Discharge, and Death Registers, 1683-1919

Female Patient Casebooks, 1778-1913

Male Patient Casebooks, 1793-1913

Voluntary and Curable Patient Casebooks, 1816-1913

Criminal and Incurable Patient Admission Registers and Casebooks, 1778-1864

Patient Casebooks from the First World War, 1914-1919, Management of Royal Bethlem Hospital, 1559-1932.

Notes:

Description based on online resource (viewed on Dec. 19, 2022).

Date range: 1559-1932.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781851173624

1851173625

OCLC:

1296388524

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.