Records of St Clements Hospital, Ipswich

The records in this collection are those which were held and cared for by the St Audrys Hospital museum, but have now been deposited under the terms of the Public Records Act 1958.

N.B. Museum references appear in brackets after the description of some items.

Other material relating to the Asylum can be found in the Ipswich Borough records and local studies library

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

A Minutes and Reports

1. Minute Books

2. Annual Reports

3. Medical Superintendents Reports

B Patients Records

THESE ARE SUBJECT TO A 100 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD

1. Admission Records

2. Registers of Patients

3. Lists and Indexes of Patients

4. Civil Registers

5. Medical Registers

6. Registers of Mechanical Restraint

7. Registers of Discharges and Transfers etc.

8. Registers of Deaths

9. General Registers

10. Case Books

11. Patients Financial Records

12. Daily Population Books

13. Visitors Books

14. Prescription Books

15. Probation Books

16. Day Clinic Registers

17. Miscellaneous

C Photographs

D Plans (Data sheets, Architects reports etc.)

E Staff Records

1. Service Registers

2. Rules and Regulations

3. Salaries, Wages and Pensions

F Financial Records

1. Ledgers

2. Finance Officers Cash Accounts

3. Journals

4. Building repairs, maintenance accounts and general supplies

5. Special Accounts:

Clerk and Stewards

Tobacco

Produce

Market Garden

Tradesmen's

6. Cash Books

7. Receipts and Payments Books

8. Miscellaneous

G General

1. Newspaper cuttings

2. Programmes

3. Letter Books

4. Hospital Magazine

Records deposited 23 May 1989

(Acc. No. 8579)

St Clements Hospital was built as the Ipswich Corporation Asylum and opened on 2 August 1870, to cater for 200 patients. Contractual arrangements were made to receive patients from other boroughs and counties, as well as private patients, and the revenue that these two classes of patient brought in paid off the capital outlay on the original buildings. Additions were made to the building over the years to increase the accommodation (eg. A Day Clinic was created in 1960, and a hospital church built in 1962) culminating in the redevelopment of the hospital in 1978.