MENDIP HOSPITAL, WELLS, RECORDS

Mendip Hospital, Wells. (Formerly the Somerset and Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum)

Originally opened as the county asylum for pauper lunatics in 1848 it alone served the county and the city of Bath until the opening of the Western Joint Asylum (Tone Vale) in 1897.

1/1/1-35 Main Committee Minutes 1848-1974

1/2/1-1/9/1 Various Committee Minutes 1911-1973

2/1/1 Reports 1961-1970 1961-1970

2/2/1-2 Rules, standing orders etc 1848-1954

2/3/1-14 Annual reports 1853-1965

5/1/1-26 Plans 1845-1946

5/2/1-5 Deeds

5/3/1-2 Sale particulars etc 1893-1939

6/1-14 Staff records of service 1863-1974

10/1-7 Visitors books 1875-1930

11/1/1-11/2/5 Ledgers 1890-1950

12/1/1-2 Accounts misc. 1848-1947

13/1 Farm supplies 1906-1956

16/1/1-16/4/2, 18/1/1-6, 19/1-6 Registers of patients 1848-1963

17/1/1-17/2/37 Case books 1848-1959

18/2/1-2 Death registers 1931-1948

20/1-2 Visitors registers 1921-1930

21/1-2 Entertainments programmes 1903-1937

22/1/1-22/4/1 Chapel records burial & grave registers service registers etc.

23/1-105 Discharged patients 1848-1917

24/1-92 Deceased patients 1848-1917

25/1-3 Various administrative files 1911-1965

<span class="wrapper"><p>For papers relating to the acquisition of the site, building and early administration of the asylum see also Q\ALu.</p> <p>For photographs etc., of mending Hospital (originally Wells Asylum) and of the staff &amp; patients of social activities - c1848-1977. See DD/X/JENS G/1619, G/1666 (inds. aerial views of hospital, c1950.)</p> <p>Report on condition of asylum, (betw.1891-94) See 1/7/3</p></span>

• <corpname>Mendip Hospital, Wells, Somerset</corpname>
• <corpname>Somerset and Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum</corpname>

The Lord Chancellor has specified that NO records from which it might be possible to identify individuals should be made available until 100 years after the last entry in the record. In addition, some records of a personally sensitive nature have a minimum restriction of 30 years.

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