Patient casebooks

This material is held atBethlem Museum of the Mind

Reference
- GB 1007 CB
Dates of Creation
- 1778/1947
Name of Creator
- Bethlem Royal Hospital
Physical Description
- 253 volumes

Scope and Content

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.

Access Information

Some records in this series are closed for access as they may contain sensitive personal information of people who are still living

Archive Record|Table of contents

Bethlem Royal HospitalBRH

General admission and discharge registersADA

Manual of procedures to document movement of patientsAPB

General admission registersARA

Incurable patient admission registersARB

Voluntary boarder admission registersARC

Patient admission papersBAP

Patient casualty registersBCK

Clothing ledgersBCL

Register of surgeons' and other consultants' visitsBCR

Survey books and reports concerning hospital landBCV

Registers of bodies removed from mortuaryBDA

Estates correspondenceBEC

Entertainment programmesBEN

Furniture inventoriesBIF

Steward's accounts for maintenance of patientsBMA

Admission papers of those not admitted as patientsBPP

Building records of hospital at MoorfieldsBRM

Steward's accounts and cash booksBSA

Steward's report booksBSB

Tithe apportionment for Wainfleet St MaryBTC

Treatment registersBTR

Physician superintendent's weekly reportsBWR

Patient casebooksCB

Contracts booksCNR

Visiting clergy booksCRB

Patient discharge, transfer and/or death registers and listsDDR

Physician superintendent's correspondenceELB

Collection of prints and drawingsEO

Estate sales particularsESP

Letterbooks containing incoming and copy outgoing general correspondence concerning Bethlem estatesFLB

Microfilmed minutes of the General CommitteeGEZ

General, rent and expenditure ledgersGRD

Correspondence and related filing concerning hospital estate at Monks OrchardHLB

Photographs of patients taken for the hospital by Henry Hering of Regent Street, LondonHPA

Glass negatives of photographs of patients taken for the hospital by Henry Hering of Regent Street, LondonHPB

Lithographs of patients observed by Dr Alexander Morison (some of them resident at Bethlem) made for successive editions of his 'Physiognomy of Mental Diseases'HPD

Glass negatives of images intended for inclusion in Rev Geoffrey O'Donoghue's 'The Story of Bethlehem Hospital' (1914)HPE

Incurable admission papersIAP

Incoming and copy outgoing correspondence with Board of Control and predecessorILB

Incurable patient account ledgerILC

Sermons and religious instructions relating to the hospitalJBS

Printed orders of service of memorial services for deceased staffJBT

Correspondence of Physician Superintendent and others concerning the hospital chapelJLB

Ledger of current pricesLCP

Reports on the hospital from the Commissioners in Lunacy, and the responses of the hospitalLCR

Bills and acts of Parliament concerning the hospital, and related materialLEB

Papers concerning patient complaints and legal actionsLEG

Lincolnshire estates account and ledger booksLLB

Manor court books for the Hospital's Lincolnshire estatesLMC

Lantern slide cataloguesLSB

Lantern slide collectionLSC

Correspondence and papers concerning the Miller Relief FundMRF

Microfilmed muniment bookMUZ

Outpatient brochuresOPA

Correspondence concerning the hospital's outpatient departmentOPC

Outpatient filesOPF

Outpatient registerOPR

Register of outpatient massage and electrical treatmentOPT

Orchard Leaves, hospital magazineORL

Patients' booksPBB

Patient account ledgers and correspondencePLC

Patients NewslettersPNL

Sports Club's cricket section's scorebookSCO

Papers concerning conduct of staffSCP

Staff employment registers and related recordsSEB

Building records of hospital at St George's FieldsSGF

Resident physician's ordersSTO

Thematic apperception testingTAT

Treasurer's and Receiver's cash booksTRC

Under the Dome, hospital magazineUTD

Visitors' names and addresses booksVAB

Visitors' booksVBB

Visitors' comments booksVCB

Visitors' fees booksVFB

Visiting Governors' report booksVGR

Visitors' booksVLC

Visitors' and patients' books for Witley convalescent establishmentVPW

Film of Wounded Soldiers' DayWSD

Lantern slides, photographs and negatives held by Witley UnitWUC

Specifications, maps, plans and sketches of buildings, estates and land in Wainfleet St Mary, and other land belonging to Bethlem in LincolnshireXAP

Maps and plans of land belonging to Bethlem at Charing CrossXBP

Plans of land belonging to Bethlem at WhitechapelXCP

Plans of land belonging to Bethlem at Mile EndXDP

Maps and plans of land belonging to Bethlem in PiccadillyXEP

Plans of land belonging to Bethlem in Lime Street, LondonXFP

Maps and plans of land belonging to Bethlem in Bishopsgate, LondonXGP

Maps of land belonging to Bethlem in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, and plans and sketches of buildings on these estatesXHP

Maps and plans of land belonging to Bethlem in Lower Clapton, Median and Glenarm Roads, LondonXJP

Maps and plans of land belonging to Bethlem in Crouch Hill, LondonXKP

Maps and plans of land belonging to Bethlem in Shepherds Bush, LondonXLP

Maps and plans of land belonging to Bethlem in the environs of the City of London, excluding Bishopsgate and Lime StreetXNP

Maps and plans of land belonging to Bethlem in George Street, Richmond, SurreyXOP

Maps and plans of land and buildings on the hospital site at MoorfieldsYAP

Maps and plans of land and buildings on the hospital site at St George's Fields, SouthwarkYBP

Maps and plans of land and buildings on the hospital site at Monks Orchard, BeckenhamYCP