Collection CLSAD - CENTRAL LONDON SICK ASYLUM DISTRICT

8.55 linear metres

CLSAD 1868-1914 Collection 8.55 linear metres Central London Sick Asylum District

The 1867 Metropolitan Poor Law Act gave authority to the Poor Law Board to order the combination of unions and parishes within the metropolis to provide asylums for the sick poor other than the workhouse. The Central London Sick Asylum District comprised the Westminster and Strand Unions and the parishes of Saint Giles in the Fields and Saint George's Bloomsbury. In 1869 the parish of Saint Pancras was added. The District was dissolved in 1913.

The Cleveland Street Infirmary had been the Strand Union Infirmary. Before being taken over by the Strand Union it was the Saint Paul's Covent Garden parish workhouse. The appalling state of the wards and terrible standard of care in the Cleveland Street Infirmary was one of the factors which led to the introduction of the Metropolitan Poor Law Act. Cleveland Street runs betweeen the Euston Road and Goodge Street.

Highgate Asylum had been the Saint Pancras Union Infirmary, built in 1881. The Hendon Asylum, Colindale, was built by the Central London District between 1898-1900. It was sold in 1913 to the City of Westminster Union. In 1919 it was passed to the Metropolitan Asylums Board. It was still used as a hospital in the 1990s but is now closed.

Acquired with the records of its successor body, the Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Minutes of the Central London Sick Asylum Board of Management, 1868-1914; minutes of Committees including the Finance Committee, Cleveland Street Asylum Visiting Committee, Hendon Asylum Visiting Committee and Special Committees, 1868-1914; financial records, 1868-1914; Local Government Board orders, 1871-1913 and correspondence, 1877-1912.

Cleveland Street Asylum registers of admission and discharge, 1875-1915, creed, 1875-1915, births, 1902-1915, deaths, 1875-1915 and burials, 1877-1915.

Highgate Infirmary and Asylum registers of admission and discharge, 1870-1883, creed, 1870-1883 and deaths, 1870-1883.

Hendon Asylum registers of admission and discharge, 1900-1917.

CLSAD-1: Minutes; CLSAD-2: Registers; CLSAD-3: Correspondence; CLSAD-4: Finance.

Available for general access.

Copyright: City of London
English

Fit, some registers are microfilmed.

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

See MAB for the Metropolitan Asylums Board.

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. April to June 2009 Cleveland Street Infirmary Central London Sick Asylum District Population censuses Registration of birth Care of the sick Care Care of poor and aged Law Legislation Poor Law Act Parish records Burial registers Government Public administration Local government Poor Law union Civil registration Registration of death Information sources Documents Medical records Medical registers Health services Medical institutions Asylums Highgate Asylum Hendon Asylum , Colindale Camden London England UK Western Europe Strand Westminster City of Westminster Hendon Middlesex Islington Haringey Barnet Hertfordshire St Pancras Colindale Covent Garden Highgate Population research Europe Demography Burial records Primary documents

Acquired with the records of its successor body, the Metropolitan Asylums Board.

Minutes of the Central London Sick Asylum Board of Management, 1868-1914; minutes of Committees including the Finance Committee, Cleveland Street Asylum Visiting Committee, Hendon Asylum Visiting Committee and Special Committees, 1868-1914; financial records, 1868-1914; Local Government Board orders, 1871-1913 and correspondence, 1877-1912.

Cleveland Street Asylum registers of admission and discharge, 1875-1915, creed, 1875-1915, births, 1902-1915, deaths, 1875-1915 and burials, 1877-1915.

Highgate Infirmary and Asylum registers of admission and discharge, 1870-1883, creed, 1870-1883 and deaths, 1870-1883.

Hendon Asylum registers of admission and discharge, 1900-1917.

CLSAD-1: Minutes; CLSAD-2: Registers; CLSAD-3: Correspondence; CLSAD-4: Finance.

Available for general access.

Copyright: City of London

• English

• Latin

English

See MAB for the Metropolitan Asylums Board.

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

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.

• English