NETHERNE ASYLUM, LATER NETHERNE HOSPITAL, COULSDON, RECORDS, 1899-1993; EAST SURREY...

The records also include plans of the Royal Earlswood Hospital, Redhill, including one produced by the first architect, W B Moffatt, apparently related to the original phase of building, c.1853-1855.

<p>For Netherne estate records, 1799-1904, see 4050; for minutes of the Netherne Asylum Standing Sub-committee and predeccessor, 1897-1948, see CC767/15; for Netherne Hospital Management Committee records, 1948-1964, see 6197/5/-; for Redhill and Netherne Group Hospital Management Committee records, 1964-1973, see 6197/3/-; for Netherne Hospital case files, 1909-1960, see 3491, 3540, 3576 and 6230; for Netherne Asylum burial registers, 1909-1960, see 3540; for records of Royal Earlswood Hospital see 392 and 3931</p>

• <corpname>Netherne Asylum, Coulsdon</corpname>
• <corpname>Netherne Hospital, Coulsdon</corpname>
• <corpname>East Surrey Health Authority</corpname>

All records less than 30 years old are closed to public inspection; staff records are closed for 75 years; records relating to named patients are closed to public inspection for one hundred years.

Deposited by East Surrey Priority Care NHS Trust in April 1997.

The Surrey County Asylum at Netherne was built 1907-9, due to the inadequate accomodation provided at the County Asylum at Brookwood. Surrey County Council had purchased the Netherne estate in 1898 with the aim of building an asylum there. The architect was GT Hine FRIBA, Consulting Architect to HM Commissioners in Lunacy, and the asylum was built at a cost of £300,000. The asylum was administered by a Standing Sub-committee of the Surrey County Council Lunatic Asylums Visiting Committee. From 1948, with the establishment of the National Health Service, hospital management came under the overall control of the South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board.

In the period covered by the minutes in this deposit, the hospital came under the direct control of the Netherne Hospital Management Committee from 1948, and the then Redhill and Netherne Group Hospital Management Committee which was formed in 1964 on the amalgamation of the Netherne Hospital and the Redhill Group Hospital Management Committees. The latter body administered a number of institutions (for which, see the introduction to list 6197). Netherne hospital closed in Spring 1994.