Records of St Audry's Hospital, Melton

N.B.

Museum references appear in brackets after the description of each item.

Other material relating to the Asylum can be found in Quarter Sessions records, Official County Council (A 2697) records and the Local Studies Library. These are listed in the appendices to this catalogue.

Summary of contents

A Minutes and Reports

1. Minute Books

2. Annual Reports

3. Medical Superintendents Reports

B Patients Records

THESE ARE SUBJECT TO A 100 YEAR CLOSURE PERIOD

1. Admissions (see also B17/6)

2. Registers of Patients

3. Lists and Indexes of Patients

4. Civil Registers

5. Medical Registers

6. Registers of Mechanical Restraint

7. Registers of Discharges and Transfers

8. Registers of Deaths

9. Burials

10. Post Mortem Records

11. Coroners Records

12. Case Books

13. Day Books

14. Daily Population Books

15. Daily Returns

16. Visitors Books

17. Miscellaneous

18. Statistics

19. Report Sheets

20. Patients Artwork

21. Patients files - see additional deposit, acc. no 10, 107

22. Boarding-out of patients: see additional catalogue

C Photographs

D Plans

E Staff Records

1. Service Registers

2. Accident Report Books

3. Salaries and Wages and Pensions

4. Record Books

5. Daily Returns

6. Diaries

7. Rules and Regulations

8. Identity cards

9. Dismissals and Appointments

10. National Asylum Workers Union

11. First World War: military service and demobilization: see additional catalogue

F Financial Records

1. General Ledgers

2. Finance Officers Cash Accounts

3. Invoice Books

4. Building Repairs, Maintenance accounts and General supplies

5. Special Accounts:

Livestock

Farm Produce and Market Garden

Coal

Shoemaker

Baking

6. Statements of Accounts

7. Miscellaneous

G General

1. Meteorological Records

2. Letter Books and Correspondence

3. History

4. Newspaper cuttings

5. Programmes

6. Inventories

7. Cricket Score Books

8. Suffolk Mental Hospitals Management Committee

9. Agreements

10. Certificates

11. Magazines

12. Uniform - see also Photographs

13. Royal visit - see also Photographs

14. Music

15. Diet

H. Land, Buildings, Plant and Stock

1. Land

2. Buildings

3. Gas Supply

4. Electrical installation

5. Central Heating

6. Boilers and engines

7. Water supply

8. Farm produce, livestock and equipment

Access to the patient records held within the collection

The patient records are closed for 100 years after the last date in the file as they contain sensitive personal information

Please see leaflet available from www.suffolkarchives.co.uk - Access to the Patient Records of St Audry's Hospital and St Clement's Hospital

As of Jan 1st 2013 please address requests to

Compliance Team

Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

Kestral House

Hellesdon Hospital

Drayton High Road

Norwich

NR6 5BE

email - dpa@nsft.nhs.uk

Deposited by G.B. Coburn, Administrator, St Audry's Hospital, Melton 23rd May 1988

Accs. 8578, 8600. 8634, 8661, 8788)

Records deposited on 19th December 1990 and 6th August 1992

Accession nos 8863 and 10, 162: ID 407/A4; 407/B7/14-16; B10/2,3; B11/2; B13/6-17; B14/3-6; B15/8-18; B16/9; B17/4,15-19; B22/1-25; D18; E3/24-51; E7/4,5; E9/5-11; E11; F5/1,2,9; F7/4/1-3; G9/5; G14; G15; 407/11

The site and buildings of St Audry's were formerly those of the House of Industry for the Loes and Wilford Hundreds Incorporation from 1765 to 1827, when the parishes were disincorporated. It then became the Suffolk County Asylum, in 1907 the Suffolk District Asylum and, from 1916, St Audry's Hospital for Mental Diseases and finally part of the East Suffolk Health Authority.

The records in this collection are those which were held and cared for by the St Audry's Hosptal Museum, but have now been deposited under the terms of the Public Records Act, 1958.