HOLLOWAY SANATORIUM, EGHAM: RECORDS OF THE HOSPITAL

The records include committee minutes, financial records, male and female case books and other patients' records, nursing records, ward diaries, staff records and visitors book.

The following is a detailed summary of the contents:

3473/1/ COMMITTEE MINUTES 1950-1962

3473/2/ FINANCIAL RECORDS 1884-1976

3473/3/ PATIENTS' RECORDS 1885-1972

3473/3/ Case books: females 1885-1926
Details as follows: name; status; age on date of admission; occupation; religion; previous abode; previous history of illness; physical and mental condition on admission; case notes. Each volume is indexed. Some volumes include photographs of the patients

3473/3/ Case books: males 1891-1926

3473/3/ Case books: female boarders 1890-1926

3473/3/ Case books: male boarders 1897-1926

3473/3/ Discharge case books: males c.1932-1943
Details as follows: name; register number; date of admission and reception order; occupation; civil state; religion; nationality; history of illness; previous treatment; insanity in relatives; direct or indirect admission; whether transferred; name of petitioner; medical certificates or statement; personal history; family history; physical and mental condition on admission; case notes

3473/3/ Alphabetical register of female patients 1919-1948
Details as follows: serial status number; date of reception order; date of admission; general reference number; name; civil state; age on admission; religion; whether voluntary, temporary or certified; date of departure, discharge or death; name of nearest relatives, friends or petitioner

3473/3/ Alphabetical register of male patients 1931-1948

3473/3/ Admission register 1967-1969

3473/3/ Register of patients 1972

3473/3/ Civil registers 1926-1948

3473/3/ Medical registers 1907-1930
Details as follows: date of admission; number in civil register; date of discharge, transfer or death; name; civil state; occupation; number of times previously certified as insane; age on admission, on onset of present attack and on onset of first attack; whether first attack; duration of the present attack from onset till admission; aetiological factors; bodily state on admission; instances of epilepsy; form of mental disorder; whether deemed suicidal; observations

3473/3/ Lyne Place registers 1957-1961
Lyne Place was originally intended to be used by members of staff, but was adapted for patients' accommodation in 1950.

3473/3/ Registers of departures etc 1928-1948
Details as follows: date of departure, discharge or transfer; date of last admission; last serial status number; name; sex; mode of admission; status on admission and departure (voluntary, temporary or certified); condition when departed or discharged; condition on transfer; address to which patient went; whether first attack; age on departure or discharge and on onset of illness; duration of last attack; aetiological factors; form of mental illness on admission; observations

3473/3/ Register of deaths 1931-1951

3473/3/ Post-mortem book 1899-1927

3473/3/ Indexes 1948-[1972]

3473/3/ Patients' possessions 1961-1962

3473/3/ Patients books 1885-1960
These are records of the visits of Commissioners from the Lunacy Commission, from Feb 1914 the Commissioners for the Board of Control. After Jun 1929 they also include records of the Visitors of Institutions and Licensed House appointed by the Quarter Sessions. The earlier book includes notes on improved patients, boarders, those patients being restrained or secluded, those on leave, those discharged and a note of those patients who had a private interview with the Commissioners. The entries become briefer, by 1948 consisting only of notes of temporary patients admitted that the Commissioners have agreed should be detained

3473/4/ NURSING RECORDS 1894-1980

3473/4/ Day and night reports for all female wards 1952-1963
Day reports give details as follows: numbers of patients in hospital, on leave, AWOL; number of vacant beds; visits of officers; admissions giving age, status, religion, reference number and presumed diagnosis; discharges and deaths giving name, age status; transfers giving name, status and ward transferred to/from; name and status of those on leave; name and status of those returned from leave; names of staff on duty, with times; general report. Night reports give details as follows: numbers of patients in hospital, on leave, AWOL; number of vacant beds; visits of officers; sedatives given at 10pm and at other times; names of staff on duty, with times; general report

3473/4/ Day and night reports for individual wards 1956-1980

3473/4/ [Senior Nursing Officer's] daily ward reports 1950-1978

3473/4/ Ward diaries 1959-1978
Contain nurses' brief notes on treatment and condition of patients and general administration of ward

3473/4/ Drugs books 1894-1900
Gives details of drugs administered.

3473/5/ STAFF RECORDS 1928-1958

3473/6/ VISITORS 1915-1917

The Holloway Sanatorium, St. Anne's Heath, Virginia Water, Egham, was founded by Thomas Holloway, patent medicine manufacturer, as a registered hospital for the cure and care of mental invalids of the middle and upper classes. Holloway gave the site, suggested the design and provided over £300,000 for the building of the sanatorium 'to relieve perchance to cure – the stricken minds of men and women'. It was opened in 1885 eighteen months after the death of Holloway. Before 1948 it was one of the thirteen private registered hospitals in England charging fees appropriate to the services rendered. In 1948 it became part of the National Health Service. It closed in 1981. The sanatorium had a branch at Canford Cliffs, Bournemouth, Dorset.

The normal closure periods for hospital records apply; all papers containing personal information are closed for 100 years, but may be made available for research under Freedom of Information requests.

Deposited by The Unit Manager, St Peter's District General Hospital, Chertsey, in October 1987.

An item level description of the archive is available on the Surrey History Centre online catalogue

For further records relating to Holloway Sanatorium and Thomas Holloway at Surrey History Centre see the following:

2620 HOLLOWAY SANATORIUM, VIRGINIA WATER, EGHAM: RECORDS OF THE HOSPITAL 1871-1980, AND PAPERS RELATING TO THE FOUNDER, THOMAS HOLLOWAY (1800-1883), PATENT MEDICINE VENDOR 1797-1947
The records include minutes of governors' meetings and annual reports, 1886-1949; house and management committee minutes, 1885-[1948]; registers of visitors, 1941-1945; case books, 1894-1907; registers of staff and correspondence and papers relating to staff, 1884-1948; papers relating to the establishment, building and administration of the Sanatorium, 1872-1980; financial records, 1871-1942; papers relating to Friends of Holloway Sanatorium, 1961-1972; and personal papers of Thomas Holloway including diaries, letter books, financial records, material relating to his parents and property in Cornwall, 1797-1947, and papers concerning Sir John Franklin's expeditions to the North-West Passage, 1842 and 1847, and the subsequent search for him

2772 THE FRIENDS OF HOLLOWAY SANATORIUM: RECORDS 1951-1982
The Friends of Holloway Sanatorium were formed on 12 March 1950 with the aim of maintaining the Sanatorium's high standards of comfort and welfare. The objects, as laid out in their rules, were to raise funds to be spent on amenities and welfare facilities for patients and staff, to recruit and assist in the recruitment of voluntary workers, and to cooperate with other bodies for the benefit of the Sanatorium. In the first eight months of their life, the Friends had equipped the Sanatorium orchestra and installed two TV sets, and by the time the Sanatorium closed in 1980 had undertaken such major projects as the building of an Art Studio, laundry, hairdressing and beauty salon, hard tennis courts and a bus shelter near the entrance, as well as the purchase of motor coaches for patients' outings and the financing of patients' holidays at the seaside.

3040 SALES PARTICULARS OF THE FORMER HOLLOWAY SANATORIUM, VIRGINIA WATER, EGHAM 1984

3237 and 3289 HOLLOWAY SANATORIUM, EGHAM: ADDITIONAL RECORDS 1885 – 1978
The records include minutes of the Hospital Management Committee and its sub-committees, and records relating to finance, staff, patients and treatment.

6864 ROYAL HOLLOWAY HOSPITAL, EGHAM: PATIENT CASE FILES AND CARD INDEX c.1940s-1981
Royal Holloway Hospital closed in 1981 and its patient files were passed to the Abraham Cowley Unit of St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey. In c.1994, 10% of the files were selected at random to provide a sample overview of patient ailments and treatments. This random sample was further reduced to 1% in July 2000. The remainder of the case files was destroyed. A list of files retained is included in the depositor file.

7288 THOMAS HOLLOWAY (1800-1883), PATENT MEDICINE MANUFACTURER AND FOUNDER OF HOLLOWAY SANATORIUM, EGHAM: TRAVEL DIARY 1864-1866
Thomas Holloway is known to have travelled extensively to promote his medicines, including to America and Europe during the 1850s. Holloway appears to have begun planning the charitable foundation which would later be realised as Holloway Sanatorium in 1864. A Harrison-Barbet, Thomas Holloway, Victorian Philanthropist: a biographical essay (Cornwall, 1990).

7476 HOLLOWAY SANATORIUM, EGHAM: ADDITIONAL RECORDS 1888-1951

7625 ROYAL HOLLOWAY COLLEGE AND HOLLOWAY SANATORIUM, EGHAM, AND OTHER PLACES, CHIEFLY IN NORTH WEST SURREY: SLIDES c.1980-2002
The slides were taken by Mr Jack Chinn between about 1980 and 2002. Some of the slides include images of oil paintings, drawings, engravings and black and white photographs.

8855 HOLLOWAY SANATORIUM: CASE BOOKS AND VISITORS BOOK 1889-1960

9641 BROOKWOOD HOSPITAL, WOKING, AND HOLLOWAY SANATORIUM, VIRGINIA WATER: RECOLLECTIONS OF IN-PATIENT IN THE 1960s AND 1970s 2016-2017

9799 HOLLOWAY SANATORIUM, VIRGINIA WATER: ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO MALE CASE BOOKS 1885-1919

K91 PROPERTY OF THOMAS HOLLOWAY [FOUNDER OF ROYAL HOLLOWAY COLLEGE, EGHAM] IN SURREY, LONDON, MONMOUTHSHIRE AND BERKSHIRE: DEEDS 1711 - 1894

Further case books are held at the Wellcome Library at the Wellcome Collection.

Palaces, patronage & pills, Thomas Holloway, his sanatorium, college & picture gallery, by John Elliott (1996)

A Study of Brookwood Asylum and Holloway Sanatorium 1884-1895, with reference to the 1890 Lunacy Act, by Camilla Seers, typescript dissertation submitted as part of B.A. degree in History , University of Exeter (2004).