Series
Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Special Hospitals, Patients'...
Catalogue reference: MH 103
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MH 103
This series contains a selection of case files of patients at the special hospitals for the criminally insane, Broadmoor, Rampton and Moss Side. The files contain details of the length of stay, patient reviews, and the repatriation, discharge or...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MH 103
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Special Hospitals, Patients' Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1913-1981
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains a selection of case files of patients at the special hospitals for the criminally insane, Broadmoor, Rampton and Moss Side. The files contain details of the length of stay, patient reviews, and the repatriation, discharge or death of the patient.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For case files kept by the Home Office on offenders who were sent to special hospitals see HO 343
For further files dealing with special hospitals see MH 150
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Board of Control, Broadmoor Institution, 1948-1960
- Board of Control, Moss Side State Institution, 1934-1960
- Board of Control, Rampton State Institution, 1920-1960
- Department of Health and Social Security, Broadmoor Hospital, 1968-1988
- Department of Health and Social Security, Moss Side Hospital, 1968-1988
- Department of Health and Social Security, Rampton Hospital, 1968-1988
- Home Office, Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, 1864-1948
- Home Office, Rampton Criminal Lunatic Asylum, 1913-1920
- Ministry of Health, Broadmoor Institution, 1960-1968
- Ministry of Health, Moss Side Hospital, 1960-1968
- Ministry of Health, Rampton Hospital, 1960-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 309 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 75 year closure
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- The files are a 10% sample taken in 1974 by selecting every tenth file of those headquarters files relating to Special Hospital patients then surviving. The files were no longer active because they related to patients who were then either dead or who had been repatriated to another country (see PRO 69/276)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10946/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: MH
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Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Special Hospitals, Patients' Files