Records of St John's Hospital, Bracebridge, formerly, the Lincolnshire County Lunatic...

Records of St. John's Hospital, Bracebridge

SUMMARY OF SECTIONS

HOSP/ST JOHN'S 1. Administrative Records

HOSP/ST JOHN'S 2. Medical Records

HOSP/ST JOHN'S 3. Emergency Hospital

<p>For additional records relating to the asylum 1844-1856, see Kesteven Quarter Sessions, Reference: KQS 2/5/3.</p>

• <corpname>Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum, 1852-1893</corpname>
• <corpname>Lincolnshire Country Pauper Lunatic Asylum, 1852-1893</corpname>
• <corpname>Lincolnshire Lunatic Asylum, 1894-1915</corpname>
• <corpname>Lindsey, Holland, Lincoln and Grimsby District Pauper Lunatic Asylum, 1897-1898</corpname>
• <corpname>Lincolnshire Asylum, 1903-1920</corpname>
• <corpname>Bracebridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum, 1898-1902</corpname>
• <corpname>Bracebridge District Lunatic Asylum, 1902-1919</corpname>
• <corpname>Bracebridge Mental Hospital, 1919-1948</corpname>
• <corpname>Lincolnshire Mental Hospital, 1930-1938</corpname>
• <corpname>Bracebridge Health Hospital, 1939-1960</corpname>
• <corpname>St John's Hospital, Bracebridge Heath, 1961-1989</corpname>

Medical records and other records of patients are closed for 100 years from the date of the last entry. Permission to view more recent records should be addressed in writing to the Principal Keeper, who will liaise with the relevant authorities.

HOSP/ST JOHN'S 1/3/1-2, 1/4/1, 1/5/1-11, 1/6/1 & 6-7, 1/7/1-72, 1/9/1-13, 1/10/1-39, 2/3/1-2, 2/4/1-5, 2/7/10-11, 2/9/21-23, 2/12/1, 2/17/2, 2/18/1, 2/20/1-8, 2/21/4-6, 8-9, 13 & 19-20, 2/22/1, 2/23/1-10, 2/24/3, 2/26/1 and 3/2/1 deposited by the Administrator, St John's Hospital, Bracebridge Heath, Lincoln on 1 October 1985. (Acc 85/124.)

HOSP/ST JOHN'S 1/1/28 & 30, 1/4/4-7, 1/6/2-4 & 8, 1/7/73, 1/8/1-3, 1/11/1-20, 1/12/1-7, 1/13/1-18, 1/14/1-18, 1/18/1-5, 1/19/1, 1/20/1, 1/21/1, 2/1/1-10, 2/8/1, 2/17/1, 2/25/1-10, 2/29/1 & 3-6, and 2/30/1 deposited by Mrs S Jones (HCO Medical Records), St John's Hospital, Bracebridge Heath on 21 November 1985. (Acc 85/158.)

HOSP/ST JOHN'S 2/15 (part) deposited by North Lincolnshire Area Health Authority, St John's Hospital, Bracebridge Heath on 25 October 1989. (Acc 89/170.) [Most case files in the range 10016-13159]

HOSP/ST JOHN'S 1/1/1-27 & 29, 1/2/1-2, 1/3/3-5, 1/4/2-3, 1/5/12-14, 1/15/1-2, 1/17/1-6, 1/19/2-3, 2/2/1-15, 2/5/1-18, 2/6/1-11, 2/7/1-8, 2/9/1-20, 2/10/1-11, 2/11/1, 2/12/2, 2/13/1-29, 2/14/1-6, 2/15 (part), 2/16/1-21, 2/17/3, 2/18/2-3, 2/19/1-2, 2/21/1-3, 7, 10-12 & 14-18, 2/22/2-7, 2/24/1-2, 2/27/1-3, 2/28/1-18, 2/29/2 and 3/1/1 deposited by the Lincoln County Hospital (Mental Health Care Unit), Peter Hodgkinson Centre, Lincoln County Hospital on 7 December 1992. (Acc 92/176.)

HOSP/ST JOHN'S 1/16/2 deposited by Lincoln County Hospital, Peter Hodgkinson Centre on 10 August 1994. (Acc 94/094.)

HOSP/ST JOHN'S 1/16/1 deposited by Lincoln District Healthcare NHS Trust, Directorate of Estates and Support Services on 12 December 1994. (Acc 94/142.)

formerly, the Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum. The Asylum was built in 1852 and enlarged on several subsequent occasions. It was originally established jointly by Lindsey, Kesteven, Holland, Lincoln, Grimsby and Stamford, and managed by a Board of Visitors appointed by the contributing authorities. Kesteven and Grantham withdrew from the arrangement when the contract of Union expired in 1893 (eventually establishing the Kesteven County Asylum at South Rauceby, 1897). The hospital was set in grounds of 120 acres which included gardens, farmland and a burial ground. In 1940 female patients were transferred to other hospitals, mainly Storthes Hall near Huddersfield, to make space for an Emergency Hospital, and many did not return until well after the end of the War. Administration of the hospital passed to the National Health Service in 1948. By the early 1960s it was known by its final name of St John's Hospital. Patients were admitted from Harmston Hall Hospital when that hospital closed. St John's Hospital itself was closed in December 1989 with the remaining patients transferred to other establishments. The site was sold for housing and most of the buildings apart from the central block were demolished.

The following names, among others, were used for the Institution, sometimes interchangeably:

1852-1893 Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum or Lincolnshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum

1894-1915 Lincolnshire Lunatic Asylum

1897-1898 Lindsey, Holland, Lincoln and Grimsby District Pauper Lunatic Asylum

1903-1920 Lincolnshire Asylum

1898-1902 Bracebridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum

1902-1919 Bracebridge District Lunatic Asylum

1919-1948 Bracebridge Mental Hospital

1930-1938 Lincolnshire Mental Hospital

1939-1960 Bracebridge Heath Hospital

1961-1989 St John's Hospital, Bracebridge Heath

The hospital was also used as a wartime Emergency Hospital in the period 1940-1943, and a few records of this function survive with the asylum records.