| Description | Registers kept under the 1853 County Asylums Act giving date, date of last admission, number in register of patients, state on discharge (recovered, relieved or not improved), or to where removed, or assigned cause of death and age at death. The Act stated that separate registers were to be kept for private and pauper patients.
Separate series of registers of deaths [NHS3/5/15] were introduced at the beginning of 1907, in accordance with the Rules of the Commissioners in Lunacy, 31 October 1906. |