NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE: MID-DOWNS DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITY

Summary of classes

1 Sussex County Lunatic Asylum: Clerk to the Visiting Committee's papers, consisting of draft minutes of the committees appointed by the Eastern and Western Divisions of the county for the erection of an asylum, draft minutes of the committee of visitors, minutes of the committee to superintend the erection, report of the Farm Committee, Farm Committee, House and Finance Committee, Committee of Visitors' minutes, agenda papers, lists of members of the Visitors' Committee, Farm Committee, Finance and Stores sub-committee; 1854-1898

2 Sussex County Lunatic Asylum: Clerk to the Visiting Committee's annual reports; 1869-1888

3 Sussex County Lunatic Asylum: Clerk to the Visiting Committee's letter books; 1854-1860

4 Sussex County Lunatic Asylum: Clerk to the Visiting Committee's general correspondence, reports and returns, consisting of reports by the Commissioners in Lunacy on the plans for the asylum and progress of the building works, correspondence and papers about the acquisition of the site, rules of the asylum, statistical schedules and returns,, reports to the Committee of Visitors, orders from the quarter sessions, general correspondence, applications for post of clerk and steward and that of housekeeper, inquest on Sarah Lucas; 1849-1895

5 Sussex County Lunatic Asylum: Clerk to the Visiting Committee tenders, contracts and papers for the erection of the asylum, contracts and bonds for the supply of goods; 1854-1872

6 Sussex County Lunatic Asylum: Clerk to the Visiting Committee bank accounts, accounts for submission to the Committee of Visitors, accounts for professional services, farm accounts; 1857-1892

7 Sussex County Lunatic Asylum: Medical Superintendent's reports to the Committee of Visitors; 1859-1902

8 Sussex County Lunatic Asylum: Medical Superintendent's daily event diaries; 1865-1898

9 Sussex County Lunatic Asylum: registers of nursing and other staff; 1859-1903

10 Sussex County Lunatic Asylum: Medical Superintendent's order book, water treatment register; 1859-1887

11 Sussex County Lunatic Asylum: Chaplain's registers of burials, register of graves, plan of the old cemetery; 1861-1891

12 Sussex County Lunatic Asylum: Surveyor's plans; 1873-1916

13 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: annual reports; 1904-1945

14 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Visitors' report books; 1903-1938

15 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: inventories of furniture and equipment in the hospital and Hurstwood Park Hospital; 1908-1944

16 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: workmens' weekly wages books; 1903-1910

17 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: rules; 1913-1920

18 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Clerk and Steward's files, consisting of annual returns to the Commissioners in Lunacy, summary accounts, wartime transfers of patients, reception of patients from Brookwood Mental hospital and exchange of patients with Netherne Mental Hospital, papers for the Visiting Committee, revision of hospital rules, revision of nurses' salaries; 1904-1948

19 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Medical Superintendent's reports to the Visiting Committee, patients' discharge books; 1902-1947

20 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Medical Superintendent's daily event diaries; 1910-1937

21 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Medical Superintendent's registers of attendants and servants; 1903-1935

22 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Medical Superintendent's returns to central government of causes of death, cases of dysentery, patients from vacated asylums under war contracts; 1903-1920

23 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Medical Superintendent's reception documents for private patients; 1859-1906

24 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Medical Superintendent's reception documents for publicly-supported patients; 1859-1940

25 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Medical Superintendent's copies of the minutes of the Committee of Visitors; 1903-1918

26 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Medical Superintendent's order book; 1930-1938

27 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: burial registers; 1903-1934

28 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Storekeeper's price book, malt liquor, wines and spirits account book, farm and kitchen garden requisition book, farm and garden weekly produce accounts, patients' clothing account; 1927-1947

29 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Medical Superintendent's registers of electro-convulsive therapy, register of insulin therapy; 1942-1947

30 Sussex County Lunatic Asylum: Clerk to the Visiting Committee contract books; 1883-1902

31 Sussex County Lunatic Asylum: Clerk to the Visiting Committee workmens' weekly wages books; 1878-1903

32 Sussex County Lunatic Asylum: Medical Superintendent's registers of admissions, registers of discharges, indexes; 1859-1903

33 Sussex County Lunatic Asylum: Medical Superintendent's patient case books and indexes; 1896-1903

34 Sussex County Lunatic Asylum: Medical Superintendent's medical journals; 1899-1902

35 Sussex County Lunatic Asylum: Clerk to the Visiting Committee ledgers; 1893-1904

36 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Clerk and Steward's registers of contracts; 1903-1947

37 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Clerk and Steward's general ledgers; 1903-1948

38 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Treasurer's cash books, allocation of expenditure books; 1929-1948

39 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Clerk and Steward's reports to the Finance Committee concerning Beechmont, canteen and private patients' accounts in arrears; 1932-1945

40 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Clerk and Steward's wages and disbursements accounts; 1935-1946

41 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Clerk and Steward's sundry debtors' accounts; 1936-1946

42 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Clerk and Steward's private patients' account books; 1934-1948

43 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Clerk and Steward's farm and garden account books; 1928-1946

44 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Clerk and Steward's Hurstwood Park emergency hospital scheme accounts; 1942-1945

45 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Clerk and Steward's officers salaries books; 1925-1948

46 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Clerk and Steward's wages books for male and female nurses and servants, domestics, workmen, Emergency Hospital Nurses, Rushcliffe pay award account books; 1933-1948

47 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Clerk and Steward's certificates of service under the 1909 Asylum Officers' Superannuation Act; 1910-1947

48 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Clerk and Steward's registers of pensions; 1937-1945

49 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Clerk and Steward's admission, discharge and death registers; 1903-1948

50 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Clerk and Steward's registers of daily numbers of resident patients; 1936-1944

51 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Clerk and Steward's plans of the hospital and grounds; 1926-1941

52 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Medical Superintendent's medical journals; 1903-1925

53 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Medical Superintendent's medical registers; 1907-1948

54 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Medical Superintendent's registers of mechanical restraint; 1927-1948

55 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Medical Superintendent's patient case records and indexes; 1903-1948

56 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: wartime records of patients at Hurstwood Park (a neuro-surgical unit) consisting of post mortem notes, portfolio of water colour paintings of surgery by Mary Hailwood; 1940-1945

57 Brighton Borough Mental Hospital: Engineer's Department and Building Department requisition book, stock ledger; 1940-1948

58 St Francis Hospital: Secretary and Finance Officer's general registers of patients, including admissions from Hurstwood Park Neurological Hospital; 1948-1960

59 St Francis Hospital: Secretary and Finance Officer's registers of discharges and deaths; 1946-1951

60 St Francis Hospital: Secretary and Finance Officer's alphabetical registers of patients; 1941-1964

61 St Francis Hospital: Secretary and Finance Officer's registers of daily numbers of patients resident; 1944-1960

62 St Francis Hospital: Secretary and Finance Officer's financial records, consisting of wages and disbursement account, sundry debtors' account, private patients' account, farm and garden account books, artisans' wages book; 1945-1954

63 St Francis Hospital: Secretary and Finance Officer's nursing establishment reports; 1952-1967

64 St Francis Hospital: Secretary and Finance Officer's registers of coroners inquests; 1935-1962

65 St Francis Hospital: Secretary and Finance Officer's file of information prepared for the annual visits of the Commissioners of the Board of Control; 1949-1964

66 St Francis Hospital: Secretary and Finance Officer's plans of the hospital and grounds; 1964

67 St Francis Hospital: Secretary and Finance Officer's published material, consisting of St Francis Hospital News, programme for the 125th anniversary celebrations; 1968-1983

68 St Francis Hospital: Medical Superintendent's register of tuberculosis notifications, order book, post mortem notes, record of private formal interviews with patients, Night Charge Nurses' report book, registers of insulin therapy, register of mechanical restraint, Dr J S Stead's notes on mental illness and treatment, case notes of patients discharged between 1927 and 1937; 1914-1982

69 St Francis Hospital: registers of burials; 1935-1953

70 St Francis Hospital: Farm Manager's stock books; 1950-1953

71 St Francis Hospital: Social and Sports Club minutes and accounts; 1930-1960

72 St Francis Hospital: artisans' work books; 1943-1956

73 St Francis Hospital: Secretary and Finance Officer's record of stores issued for entertainments; 1902-1951

74 St Francis Hospital and Lady Chichester Hospital: Management Committee general ledgers, cash book, allocation of expenditure book; 1939-1950

75 Mid-Sussex Hospital Management Committee (Chailey Heritage, Pouchlands Hospital, Sedgebrook Smallpox Hospital, Uckfield Cottage Hospital): Secretary's registered and unregistered files, consisting of bed occupancy, catering, endowments, building inspections under the Factory Acts, fire precautions, league of friends, teaching staff, compulsory acquisition of Home Mead in Uckfield, buildings, Lady Hoare Thalidomide Appeal Fund, pupil nurse training (psychiatric), trade unions, acquisition of land, market gardening, staff salary returns, staff numbers, capital projects, minutes of the Uckfield Hospital House Committee, Pouchlands Hospital House Committee and of the Chailey Heritage 'voluntary body'; 1948-1974

76 Mid-Sussex Hospital Management Committee (Chailey Heritage, Pouchlands Hospital, Sedgebrook Smallpox Hospital, Uckfield Cottage Hospital): Support Services General Administrator's file consisting of notes, report on loss of drugs and on diet at Pouchlands Hospital, cost statements for Pouchlands Hospital, Uckfield Hospital and Chailey Heritage; 1970-1971

77 Mid-Sussex Hospital Management Committee (Chailey Heritage, Pouchlands Hospital, Sedgebrook Smallpox Hospital, Uckfield Cottage Hospital): Building Supervisor's files relating to Uckfield Hospital and Chailey Heritage; 1952-1970

78 East Sussex Western Smallpox Hospital District Committee: sealing register, general ledgers, minutes; 1902-1938

79 East Sussex Western Joint Smallpox Hospital Board: minutes; 1939-1948

80 Sussex County Lunatic Asylum: Medical Superintendent's cabinet-maker's work book; 1897-1900

81 Brighton County Borough Mental Hospital: Chaplains' service journals; 1914-1930

82 St Francis Hospital: Secretary and Finance Officer's Official Visitors' report book; 1938-1962

83 St Francis Hospital: Secretary and Finance Officer's copies of St Francis Hospital News; 1968-1981

84 East Sussex County Asylum, Hayward Heath: returns to the Commissioners in Lunacy; 1901

Patients' records are not available for consultation until 100 years after the last date of the document. Which series are affected is indicated in their catalogue entries. Other series are not available for consultation until 30 years after the last date of the document.