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The format of admission registers changed several times between 1683 and 1973. ARA-01 begins by listing patients in residence on 1 May 1683 before recording subsequent admissions. Volumes ARA-01 to ARA-09 give only brief details of admissions; fuller details are provided in volumes ARA-10 onwards. The dates of ARA-10 to ARA-19 overlap those of ARA-01 to ARA-09, so that the admission entries in these volumes are duplicated. The dates of ARA-22 and ARA-23 also overlap. ARA-23 is the first in a run of seventeen admission registers (also known as Commissioners' Books) which were produced to comply with Lunacy Commission guidelines on admission entries (and also include details of discharge), and much of the information in it is duplicated in ARA-22. Duplication was discontinued thereafter. Admission registers appear to have been discontinued altogether after September 1902 (ARA-39), and were resumed (in a form which recorded brief particulars only) upon the advent of the National Health Service in July 1948 (ARA-40 onwards). Registers containing fuller patient information survive for admissions from 1962 to 1971 (ARA-50) and from 1964 to 1973 (ARA-51 and ARA-52). After 1973, admission registers appear to have been discontinued (although admission and discharge registers continued to be kept until 1991).

Entries in each volume are arranged chronologically by date of admission, but the volumes are not sequential, i.e. the covering dates of each volume overlap with the next.

The Lunacy Act of 1890 permitted registered mental hospitals such as Bethlem Royal to admit uncertified patients as voluntary boarders. The Mental Treatment Act extended this permission to all hospitals.

BAP-001 to BAP-147 contain admission bonds, certificates and other formal admission papers only, whereas BAP-148 to BAP-295 contain files with correspondence on non-medical matters as well as formal admission papers. These files are arranged by number in two successive sequences, the first of which (contained in BAP-148 to BAP-193) is indexed in AIB-01, and the second of which (contained in BAP-194 to BAP-295) is indexed in AIB-03 and AIB-04. Most of the files numbered 1-1469 (and none after 1469) in the first sequence, which ran on to number 1860, survive. Most of the files numbered 1-2399 (and only four after 2399) in the second sequence, which ran on to an unknown number above 3360, survive.

Manuscript annual reports for 1816 and 1818-1821 can be found in BCB-26 (delivered in the January of the new year following in each case), manuscript annual reports for 1823-1832 can be found in BCB-27, and manuscript annual report for 1817 can be found in BCV-01 (delivered in the January of the new year following in each case).

Reports of the hospital's Committee of View and its successor bodies, and survey books, on Kent and Lincolnshire estates, members of which visited Bridewell and Bethlem estates regularly.

Incoming and copy outgoing correspondence of Bethlem and Bridewell clerk concerning Bethlem estates. John Poynder was clerk of Bridewell and Bethlem Hospitals from 1805 to 1845, John Brewer was clerk from 1894 to 1911, John L Worsfold was clerk from 1911 to 1939, and Malcolm B Hewitt was clerk from 1939 to 1953.

John Poynder was clerk of Bridewell and Bethlem Hospitals from 1805 to 1845, B Welton was clerk from 1845 to 1854, and A M Jeaffreson was clerk from 1854 until 1885.

Registers of leases on properties held as endowments by the hospital.

These detail expenses associated with the maintenance of each patient.

From 1953 to 1973, the Gazette was published in 13 successive volumes; from 1974 to Summer 1981, unnumbered issues were issued; the Winter 1981 issue was styled volume 29 number 3, and issues were published in successive volumes thereafter.

Includes minutes and related papers of the New Bethlem Hospital Special (Building) Committee, and contracts, tenders and correspondence concerning building and maintenance work at Monks Orchard and on the Maudsley site.

In the nineteenth century, admission papers were posted to the Steward of Bethlem Royal Hospital in advance of the weekly meeting of the Bethlem Sub-Committee. Most of those for whom admission papers were completed were admitted to the Hospital, usually seven days after the Sub-Committee had approved their admission. However, a minority were not admitted, either because the petition relating to their admission was refused by the Sub-Committee, or, in cases in which the petition was approved, because (for whatever reason) they were not brought to the hospital to be admitted. Admission papers were not numbered and filed until admission, and papers relating to those who were not admitted must have been discarded in the normal course of events. Papers of those who were not admitted in 1815-1816 and 1848 seem to have been preserved by accident amongst the papers of those who were admitted. Unlike the main run of patient admission papers, the papers dating from 1848 often include letters from petitioners, doctors and others - perhaps because letters relating to admitted patients were removed for inclusion in the relevant casebook entry, or in other files.

Tithe apportionments are the principal record of the commutation of tithes (substitution of monetary payments for payments in kind) in a parish under the Tithe Act 1836. The original apportionments for every parish in England and Wales were retained in the custody of the Tithe Commissioners and are now in the National Archives. Bethlem Hospital kept a copy of the apportionment for Wainfleet St Mary as the landowner.

Some of the casebooks dating from 1817 to 1823 contain entries for patients housed in the State Criminal Lunatic Asylum, and strictly speaking, casebook entries derive their provenance from the State Criminal Lunatic Asylum in the case of criminal patients, as Bethlem officers were paid by the state to administer and provide care for criminal lunatics.

Strictly speaking, casebook entries derive their provenance from Bethlem Royal Hospital in the case of incurable patients, and from the State Criminal Lunatic Asylum in the case of criminal patients, as Bethlem officers were paid by the state to administer and provide care for criminal lunatics.

These appear to be the copies of the reports that were kept by the Warlingham Park Hospital representative on the Council.

These appear to be the copies kept by the Mental Illness Unit General Manager

John Poynder was clerk of Bridewell and Bethlem Hospitals from 1805 to 1845, B Welton was clerk from 1845 to 1854, A M Jeaffreson was clerk from 1854 until 1885, John Baggallay was clerk from 1885 to 1894, and John Brewer was clerk from 1894 to 1911.

Contain copies of contracts with the Hospital.

Copies of BCB-1 to BCB-33.

After the retirement of Rev. Geoffrey O'Donoghue, which coincided with the hospital's move to Monks Orchard, religious services in the chapel (details of which are recorded in these books) were led by visiting clergy.

Volumes containing resolutions of Bridewell Hospital's Court of Governors and sub-committees concerning the State Criminal Lunatic Asylum and patients therein, copies of relevant official correspondence and copies of the quarterly patient returns made by the Asylum to the Secretary of State for the Home Office. Returns were continued after the transfer of the majority of the patients to Broadmoor (completed by 1864), and the subsequent demolition of the wing of the hospital in which the criminal patients were housed, because a small number of criminal patients were kept at Bethlem Royal Hospital into the 1880s.

From 24 October 1816 to 19 October 1820, this committee appears to have had no independent existence, but seems to have been constituted simply as and when the Bethlem Sub-Committee discussed matters relating to the State Criminal Lunatic Asylum. It seems to have become known as the Criminal Lunatic Sub-Committee from 26 October 1820 onwards. Unlike series CSA, which records the interaction of the Criminal Lunatic Department with Government, volumes in this series seem to have been solely used internally.

The format of discharge, transfer and/or death registers changed several times between 1782 and 1991. From 1907 to 1965, deaths were recorded in separate volumes (DDR-15 to DDR-18), and a run of volumes giving brief details of discharge separate from the main run of volumes was maintained from 1910 to 1962 (DDR-19 to DDR-21).

Partially indexed in ARG-01.

Minutes of the meeting of 1 April 1974 are unsigned. The Estate Management and Investment Committee first met on 27 September 1948. After its meeting of 1 April 1974, the task of deciding investment policy was handed over to the Finance and General Purposes Committee. It was intended that thereafter the Estate Management and Investment Committee would meet at six-monthly intervals, usually immediately after a meeting of the Finance and General Purposes Committee, solely to review investment performance. However, the papers of the Finance and General Purposes Committee give no indication that this was ever done.

Affairs concerning Bridewell's London and country estates were handled by the London Estates Sub-Committee and the Lincolnshire Estates Sub-Committee (renamed the Country Estates Sub-Committee in 1845) respectively until 1855, when these two committees were merged to form the Estates Sub-Committee. In June 1932, the name of the committee was changed to the Estates and Finance Sub-Committee.

Sales particulars for property sold by the hospital, as well as for the Monks Orchard estate.

Kenneth Johnson was House Governor from 1948 to 1962, and Leslie Paine was House Governor from 1962 to 1985.

Copies of GEN-01 to GEN-26.

Provides details of criminals tranferred from prisons to the State Criminal Lunatic Asylum at Bethlem Royal Hospital, their crimes, trial, character and health.

Record assets, liabilities, capital gains and losses.

Minutes of Bethlem (Sub-) Committee from 1709 to 1930, the Bethlem Grand Committee from 1789 to 1802, Bethlem House Committee from 1930 to 1949, and Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital Committee from 1949 to 1976. The (Sub-) Committee was a weekly meeting of a fixed proportion of those hospital Governors that had been elected to the (Sub-) Committee, who were obliged to attend in rotation. Its business was the admission and discharge of patients, the auditing of monies and supplies, and other everyday affairs of the hospital. The Grand Committee, consisting of all those hospital Governors that had been elected to the (Sub-) Committee, was summoned only to approve contracts or transact business of exceptional significance. The name of the (Sub-) Committee was changed to the House Committee in 1930. A year after the advent of the National Health Service in July 1948, and the merger of Bethlem Royal Hospital with the Maudsley, most of the functions of the House Committee were taken over by the Joint Hospital's Hospital Committee (though some others became the responsibility of the Medical Committee).

Papers of the House Committee from 1948 to 1949, and Hospital Committee from 1949 to 1976. A year after the advent of the National Health Service in July 1948, and the merger of Bethlem Royal Hospital with the Maudsley, most of the functions of the House Committee were taken over by the Joint Hospital's Hospital Committee (though some others became the responsibility of the Medical Committee).

Partially indexed in ARG-01.

The hospital had HPA-01 to HPA-49 mounted, and titled with the initials, diagnosis and (in the case of criminal patients) crime of each patient.

The Committee was established by the Court of Governors on 10 January 1817 'for the purpose of examining witnesses and collecting information on the question of the expediency of a chaplain being appointed at Bethlem Hospital, with directions to report to the Court'. Its report was printed by H Bryder at Bridewell Hospital at the end of 1817.

The Committee was established by the Court of Governors on 10 January 1817 'for the purpose of examining witnesses and collecting information on the question of the expediency of a chaplain being appointed at Bethlem Hospital, with directions to report to the Court'. Its report was printed by H Bryder at Bridewell Hospital at the end of 1817.

These reports were published to provide statistical data to support medical research and hospital administration.

This committee was known as the Asylums Committee from its establishment in 1889, as the Asylums and Mental Deficiency Committee after the Mental Deficiency Act 1913, and as the Mental Hospitals Committee from 1 August 1922 onwards. By the late 1930s, it appears to have been governed by the Council's Public Health Committee.

Weekly food expenditure.

Includes details of bequests made to the hospital extracted from proven wills.

Copies of lists of hospital Governors can also be found in other places as follows: SRO-04 (1818 and 1845), SRO-12 (1868), HCM-54 (1900), HCM-56 (1906), HCM-58 (1911), HCM-60 (1916), HCM-61 (1919) and HCM-65 (1927).

Rev Edward Geoffrey O'Donoghue, Bethlem chaplain from 1892 to 1930, compiled a collection of lantern slides over a period of years to illustrate the regular lectures he gave, mostly on the history of the hospital, as part of a programme of entertainments for staff and patients. This collection is held as series LSC. A printed outline of the slides O'Donoghue used in 1905, and a catalogue of the slides prepared by Kenneth Cantle (who worked as an attendant, then a male nurse, at Bethlem from 1903 to 1947, and as part-time librarian at Bethlem from 1947 to 1957) in 1937, comprises series LSB.

Rev Edward Geoffrey O'Donoghue, Bethlem chaplain from 1892 to 1930, compiled this collection of lantern slides over a period of years to illustrate the regular lectures he gave, mostly on the history of the hospital, as part of a programme of entertainments for staff and patients. A printed outline of the lecture he gave, and list of the slides he used, on 26 October 1905 is held at LSB-01. In 1907 there were nearly three hundred slides in the collection, by 1915 over three hundred. The collection illustrates contemporary (as well as historical) subjects, such as the staff fancy dress ball of 1907, First World War subjects, including Bethlem's 'Wounded Soldiers' Day' of 1916, photographs taken on excursions into Kent and Surrey, and the Monks Orchard estate.

Includes minutes of General Purposes Sub-Committee, unsigned from 1949 to 1956, signed from 1957 to 1972. Last met on 20 December 1999.

Minutes and papers of General Purposes Sub-Committee of the Medical Committee of the Joint Hospital from 1949 to 1972, the Executive Committee of the Medical Committee from 1972 to 1976, the Medical Executive Committee from 1977 to 1991, and the Clinical Advisory Group from 1991 to 1992. The Clinical Advisory Group last met on 8 October 1992. Its functions appear to have been taken on by the Operational Management Group, which was remaned the Clinical Services Group from 17 January 1995 onwards. Minutes of General Purposes Sub-Committee are also included in the minutes and papers of the Joint Hospital's Medical Committee (series MCC), unsigned from 1949 to 1956, and signed from 1957 to 1972.

Engineer's reports were initially submitted to London County Council's Special (Housing and Treatment of Lunatics) Sub-Committee, but were later submitted to its Asylums and Mental Deficiency (General Purposes) Sub-Committee and then its Maudsley Hospital Sub-Committee.

These volumes contain copies of orders extracted from minutes of the Maudsley Mental Hospital and Mill Hill Emergency Hospital Sub-Committees that were sent to the Maudsley's (and later Mill Hill's) Clerk and Receiver. Orders copied on white paper appear to concern both staff and patient matters, whereas orders copied onto yellow paper appear to concern staff matters only.

Includes extracts of resolutions of London County Council and its Mental Hospitals Committee.

Sent to the Maudsley's (later Mill Hill's) Clerk and Steward.

MUN-01 contains copies of charters, deeds, wills etc., whereas MUN-02 to MUN-05 record the location of such documents in muniment rooms.

Copy of MUN-01.

Minutes of the sub-committee variously titled 'for the affairs of the New Bethlem Hospital', 'of regulation' and 'of reference relative to the resident officers of Bethlem Hospital'.

This committee was known as the Advisory Committee on Nurses' Education from May 1957 to January 1958, and as the Nursing Committee thereafter. The minutes end in 1975. By the 1990s, the functions of this committee appear to have been taken over by the Nursing Forum.

Brochures concerning the Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Bethlem's outpatient department based at 52 Lambeth Road from 1919 to 1927, and a blank patient attendance card.

Correspondence concerning the Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Bethlem's outpatient department based at 52 Lambeth Road from 1919 to 1927.

Only the first seven issues of this magazine are held, but it is known that it continued in production until 1940 or 1941 (cf. SPB-09). Presumably it was stopped as a wartime economy measure.

Hennell's papers were given to Michael MacLeod by his heirs, and MacLeod collated and arranged these, adding his own correspondence and notes, in the course of writing the biography.

Information regarding the hospital's lease of farms.

Records of cash receipts, including private patients, tea fund, use of telephone and sales.

Registers of services, programmes of services, photographs and information relating to the building of a new chapel.

Files relating to the day hospitals that were established to supply outpatient mental health services to people in the Croydon area.

Records of renumeration for patients' work in wards while in the hospital. The early records include work in hospital workshops and departments and occupational therapy workshops. See series QFZ or QGZ for later records.

Records of renumeration for patients' work in hospital workshops and departments while in the hospital. Earlier records relating to this work are located in series QDZ Record of Reward Monies - Wards.

Souvenir Programmes of anniversary events and correspondence, minutes and notes relating to hospital anniversaries.