Salary books

Books itemising and receipting salary and allowance payments made to medical and general staff and servants. Payments to attendants were made quarterly until Christmas 1894 and monthly thereafter, and payments to physicians were made quarterly until Michaelmas 1920 and monthly thereafter. Salary payments made out of the allowance provided by the Government in respect of work undertaken by Bethlem Royal Hospital staff in the State Criminal Lunatic Asylum, which was housed in a wing of the hospital from 1816 to 1864, were itemised and receipted in SB-02 and SB-04. Salaries for staff at the hospital's convalescent home at Witley, Surrey, were listed separately within these books from Christmas 1870 until the closure of the home in 1929. Volumes SB-27 to SB-33 give salary details for members of staff who left between April 1979 and March 1988 inclusive, and SB-34 to SB-41 give salary details for members of staff who were still in the Hospitals' employ as at 1 April 1988.

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