BEXLEY HOSPITAL - AIM25

Identity area

Reference code

H65

Title

BEXLEY HOSPITAL

Date(s)

1897-1986 (Creation)

Level of description

Extent and medium

21 linear metres.

Context area

Name of creator

Bexley Hospital x Heath Asylum x Bexley Asylum x Bexley Mental Hospital x London County Asylum, Bexley

Biographical history

Bexley Hospital was founded in 1898 in Old Bexley Lane, Bexley. (It is not the Bexley Hospital in Bexleyheath which was founded in 1884). It has also been known as Heath Asylum, Bexley Asylum, Bexley Mental Hospital and London County Asylum, Bexley. The hospital closed in around 2001.

Bexley Hospital was administered by the South East Metropolitan Hospital Board (1948 - 1974), the South East Thames Regional Health Authority (1974-), the Bexley District Health Authority (1974-) and Oxleas NHS Trust (1995-).

Source of information: The National Archives, Hospital Records Database (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords).

Repository

The London Archives

Archival history

H65 1897-1986 Collection. 21 linear metres. Bexley Hospital x Heath Asylum x Bexley Asylum x Bexley Mental Hospital x London County Asylum, Bexley

Bexley Hospital was founded in 1898 in Old Bexley Lane, Bexley. (It is not the Bexley Hospital in Bexleyheath which was founded in 1884). It has also been known as Heath Asylum, Bexley Asylum, Bexley Mental Hospital and London County Asylum, Bexley. The hospital closed in around 2001.

Bexley Hospital was administered by the South East Metropolitan Hospital Board (1948 - 1974), the South East Thames Regional Health Authority (1974-), the Bexley District Health Authority (1974-) and Oxleas NHS Trust (1995-).

Source of information: The National Archives, Hospital Records Database (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords).

Records deposited in 2006 and 2010.

Records of Bexley Hospital, including medical superintendent's reports (1907-1916); staff registers (1897-1944); accounts and ledgers (1899-1939); patient admissions and discharges (1899-1972); case books (1899-1951); medical registers (1898-1952); post mortem books (1898-1949); death registers (1907-1982); burial registers (1900-1917); civil registers (1910-1948); mechanical restraint registers (1934-1961); birth registers (1979-1986); equipment books (1901-1902); ward and office inventories (1901-1948).

The records are arranged as follows:

H65/A/01 ADMINISTRATION: MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT BOOKS;

H65/A/02 ADMINISTRATION: WARD INVENTORY BOOKS;

H65/A/03 ADMINISTRATION: EQUIPMENT RECEIPT AND ISSUE BOOKS;

H65/B/01 PATIENTS' RECORDS: ALPHABETICAL REGISTERS;

H65/B/02 PATIENTS' RECORDS: REGISTERS OF PATIENTS;

H65/B/03 PATIENTS' RECORDS: ADMISSION AND DISCHARGE REGISTERS;

H65/B/04 PATIENTS' RECORDS: CIVIL REGISTERS;

H65/B/05 PATIENTS' RECORDS: REGISTERS OF DISCHARGES, REMOVALS AND DEATHS;

H65/B/06 PATIENTS' RECORDS: REGISTERS OF DISCHARGES AND TRANSFERS;

H65/B/07 PATIENTS' RECORDS: REGISTERS OF DEPARTURES, DISCHARGES AND TRANSFERS;

H65/B/08 PATIENTS' RECORDS: DISCHARGE ORDERS;

H65/B/09 PATIENTS' RECORDS: REGISTERS OF DEATHS;

H65/B/10 PATIENTS' RECORDS: CASE BOOKS;

H65/B/11 PATIENTS' RECORDS: MEDICAL REGISTERS;

H65/B/12 PATIENTS' RECORDS: RECEPTION ORDERS;

H65/B/13 PATIENTS' RECORDS: BIRTH REGISTERS;

H65/B/14 PATIENTS' RECORDS: REGISTERS OF BURIALS;

H65/B/15 PATIENTS' RECORDS: POST MORTEM BOOKS;

H65/B/16 PATIENTS' RECORDS: REGISTERS OF MECHANICAL RESTRAINT;

H65/B/17 PATIENTS' RECORDS: REGISTERS OF INHERITED MENTAL DISORDERS;

H65/B/18 PATIENTS' RECORDS: PATIENTS ABSENT ON TRIAL;

H65/C/01 STAFF RECORDS: STAFF REGISTERS;

H65/D/01 FINANCE: LEDGERS;

H65/D/02 FINANCE: LEDGERS: PRIVATE PATIENTS;

H65/D/03 FINANCE: TREASURERS' ACCOUNTS;

H65/D/04 FINANCE: CASH ACCOUNTS;

H65/D/05 FINANCE: DAY BOOK EQUIPMENT.

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Copyright of this collection rests with the depositor.

English.

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

London County Council records:

LCC/MIN/807-845 Bexley Asylum Sub-committee minutes (1898-1948);

LCC/MIN/846-847 Bexley Asylum presented papers (1938-1948);

LCC/PH/MENT/4/11-12 Lists of patients admitted, died and recommended for discharge (1913-1928).

South East Thames Regional Authority records:

HA/SE/322: Annual statistical returns of Bexley Hospital and Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup (1948-1986).

Records of King Edward's Hospital Fund for London:

A/KE/736/2 King Edward's Hospital Fund for London reports and papers relating to Bexley Hospital (1954-1959);

A/KE/716/048 Bexley: distribution of food to patients (1953 Jun).

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Records deposited in 2006 and 2010.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Records of Bexley Hospital, including medical superintendent's reports (1907-1916); staff registers (1897-1944); accounts and ledgers (1899-1939); patient admissions and discharges (1899-1972); case books (1899-1951); medical registers (1898-1952); post mortem books (1898-1949); death registers (1907-1982); burial registers (1900-1917); civil registers (1910-1948); mechanical restraint registers (1934-1961); birth registers (1979-1986); equipment books (1901-1902); ward and office inventories (1901-1948).

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement