Roundway Mental Hospital, Devizes

CLASSIFICATION SCHEME FOR RECORDS OF MENTAL HOSPITALS

100: Minutes

110: Annual Reports

111: Official Visitors' Report Books

112: Annual Statistical Returns

113: Hospital Publications

114: Official Visitors' Reports on Patients' Books

115: Other non-medical Report Books

120: Deeds

130: Correspondence

140: Registers of Staff

141: Indexes of Staff

142: Salaries and Wages

150: General Ledgers

151: Patients Ledgers

152: Private Patients Account Books

153: Quarterly Abstracts of Accounts

154: Accounts Day Books

156: Stocks and Stores Accounts

157: Repairs

160: Miscellaneous

161: Photographs

165: Plans

170: Admission Registers

172: Indexes to Admissions

173: Miscellaneous A. and D.

174: Journals

175: Medical Registers

176: Registers of Discharge

177: Registers of Deaths

178: General Registers

180: Post-mortem Books

181: Ward Report Books

182: Medical Superintendents' Journals

183: Register of Diarrhoea

184: Registers of Mechanical Restraint and Seclusion

190: Case Books

198: Reception Orders

From its foundation in 1845 until 1889, this hospital was run by the Wiltshire Court of Quarter Sessions, and records relating to its foundation and management are to be found listed in the Administration Section of the Court of Quarter Sessions handlist (A1/570). From 1889 until 1948 the Wiltshire County Council was responsible for the hospital and the minutes of the Visiting Committee are to be found in the W.C.C. Clerk's Office archives. In 1948 the hospital was absorbed into the National Health Service and it had its own separate Hospital Management Committee, which ceased to exist in 1974, when the National Health Service was reorganised. The bulk of the records listed here are financial, clinical and case records dating from the early years of the hospital up to recent times.