Records of The Towers Hospital (formerly Leicester Borough Lunatic Asylum), Gipsy...

There are a number of gaps in this deposit of records, particularly amongst the earlier medical records, and several of the extant volumes of patients' case notes, for example, are badly affected by damp, and will be only partially legible after conservation.

HOSPITAL COMMITTEE

DE 2853/1. Minutes of City Mental Hospital Committee: Farm and House Sub-Committees 1945 - 1948

DE 2853/2 - 25 Minutes of Leicester No. 3 Management Committee 1948 - 1978

DE 2853/26 - 30 Reports of Leicester No. 3 Management Committee 1948 - 1959

DE 2853/31 - 32 Reports of City Mental Hospital Visiting Committee 1928 - 1942

FINANCE

DE 2853/33 - 38 Account Books 1874 - 1948

MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT

DE 2853/39. Correspondence 1884 - 1901

DE 2853/40 - 64 Journals 1871 - 1917; 1919 - 1960

DE 2853/65 - 69 Diaries 1894 - 1897; 1900 - 1911

DE 2853/70 - 82 Matron's Daily Report Books/Sheets 1944 - 1952; 1955 - 1956; 1958; 1962

DE 2853/83 - 88 Reports to Visiting Committee and various statistical reports 1891 - 1911; 1935 - 1945; 1953 - 1974

MEDICAL STAFF

DE 2853/89 - 95 Applications, staff registers, nurses' medical records and correspondence re. staff appointments 1883 - 1913; 1920 - 1944; 1960 - 1971

DE 2853/96 Nurses' Representative Council minutes 1946 - 1950

DE 2853/97 - 101 Medical Staff Committee minutes and correspondence 1948 - 1950; 1965 - 1976

DE 2853/102 Senior Officers Committee minutes 1961 - 1965

DE 2853/103 - 113 Group Medical Advisory Committee minutes and correspondence 1948 - 1974

PATIENTS' RECORDS

DE 2853/114 - 146 Admission Registers, Registers of Patients, Civil Registers and Medical Registers 1869 - 1960

DE 2853/147 - 159 Registers of Deaths, Removals, Discharges and Transfers 1869 - 1955

DE 2853/160 - 167 Discharge Order Books 1910 - 1959

DE 2853/168 - 170 Continuation Order Books 1929 - 1938

DE 2853/171 - 205 Case Books and Indexes 1869 - 1912

DE 2853/206 - 217 Post Mortem Registers 1909 - 1957

DE 2853/218 - 219 Pathological Registers 1911 - 1930; 1936 - 1949

DE 2853/220 - 223 Registers of Mechanical Restraint and Seclusion 1941 - 1947; 1954 - 1960

DE 2853/224 - 227 Miscellaneous medical registers 1925 - 1959

DE 2853/228 - 229 Patients' address books 1897 - 1956

GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, REPORTS, HANDBOOKS AND MISCELLANEA

DE 2853/230 - 236 Correspondence, printed handbooks, study reports and articles submitted for publication by Dr. Kidd, Medical Superintendent 1951 - 1965

DE 2853/237 - 238 Miscellaneous photographs and papers c.1900 - 1950

<p>For the early minutes, annual reports and rules of the hospital see a previous deposit of Leicester No. 3 Hospital Management Committee records, accession number 16D65.</p>

• <corpname>Leicester Borough Lunatic Asylum</corpname>
• <corpname>Towers Hospital, Leicester</corpname>

CLOSURE OF 30 YEARS APPLIES TO ALL RECORDS EXCEPT WHERE 100 YEAR CLOSURE INDICATED

Deposited on indefinite loan: 22 February & 17 December 1985

In 1865 Leicester Corporation decided to build an asylum for the town's pauper lunatics who had previously been accommodated in the Leicestershire and Rutland Asylum, or in other institutions. This decision was due partly to the population increase in both the town and county of Leicester, and also to the refusal of the Commissioners in Lunacy to sanction an enlargement of the County Asylum.

Therefore a site was purchased in Humberstone, building commenced in 1867, and the new asylum to accommodate 300 patients was opened on 2 September 1869. The architect of the original building was the borough surveyor, Edward Loney Stephens, and new wings were added to the asylum in 1883 and 1890. (J. Storey: Historical Sketch of the Borough of Leicester, 1895)

In 1948 control of the Towers Hospital was transferred from Leicester City Mental Hospital Committee to the Leicester No. 3 Hospital Management Committee of Sheffield Regional Hospital Board. The hospital is now administered by Leicestershire Health Authority.