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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...

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Reference
MH 103
Title
Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Special Hospitals, Patients' Files
Date
1913-1981
Description

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.

Related material

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

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Creator(s)
  • 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
Physical description
309 file(s)
Access conditions
Subject to 75 year closure
Selection and destruction information
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 The files were no longer active because they related to patients who were then either dead or who had been repatriated to another country (see PRO 69/276)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10946/

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