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Series
Home Office: Criminal Lunacy Warrant and Entry Books
Catalogue reference: HO 145
What's it about?
HO 145
Entries of warrants for the removal from prison and the reception at asylums of criminal lunatics. From 1899 the volumes contain in addition out-letters relating to criminal lunatics and staff at asylums.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HO 145
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Criminal Lunacy Warrant and Entry Books
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Date (When the record was created)
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1882-1921
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Description (What the record is about)
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Entries of warrants for the removal from prison and the reception at asylums of criminal lunatics. From 1899 the volumes contain in addition out-letters relating to criminal lunatics and staff at asylums.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also Records created or inherited by the Ministry of Health and successors, Local Government Boards and related bodies,
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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36 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Mental illness
- Prisons
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9009/
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