Criminal resolutions, correspondence and returns

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.

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