Posted by Phyllis on Friday, December 13, 2019 in Presentation
Here is the presentation about hospitals from the December meeting which includes the web addresses of various organisations I mentioned.Information for doctors and nurses is well documented and quite a lot is available from Ancestry, but the original sources are on the web links.
Asylum records are held either by local history centres or the London Metropolitan Archives and are a particularly rich source of information detailing not only names and addresses of those being treated but notes about their physical and mental condition and a monthly doctor's report outlining their progress. Some even have a photograph of the person.
All hospital and asylum records are subject to the 100 year rule so more recent research may cause extra difficulties.
