Comprising: (copy) minutes, 1928-1948 and staff committee, signed, 1951; annual reports 1931-1948; log book 1933-1935; patients 1928-1970s
DONCASTER, ST CATHERINE'S HOSPITAL RECORDS
This material is held atDoncaster Archives
- Reference
- GB 197 HR4
- Dates of Creation
- 1928-1970s
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- not known
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The South-West Yorkshire Joint Board for the Mentally Defective was established under the provisions of the Mental Deficiency Acts of 1913 and 1927. Its members were the county boroughs of Dewsbury, Doncaster, Halifax, Huddersfield and Rotherham. At its first meeting in October 1928 it decided to purchase St Catherine's Hall and its estate of some 115 acres on the south-west outskirts of Doncaster and in the parish of Loversall for use as a 'colony for mental defectives'. This was known as the St Catherine's Institution. The institution was vested in the National Health Service in 1948.
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