Series:
Patient Records removed from Case Books.
Series Number:
Access:
Restricted 75 Years (E75)
Start Date:
25 Jan 1894
End Date:
20 Apr 1979
Creating Agency:
| Royal Derwent Hospital (TA465) | 01 Jan 1827 | 30 Nov 2000 |
| Millbrook Rise Psychopathic Hospital (TA469) | 21 Feb 1934 | 01 Jul 1968 |
Previous Series:
| AB365 Patient Records - Case Books (All Patients). | 01 Jan 1872 | 31 Dec 1938 |
| AB372 Patient Files. | 21 Feb 1934 | 01 Jul 1968 |
Subsequent Series:
| HSD284 Patient Files. | 05 Jul 1857 | 23 Dec 1993 |
How to Use:
Consignment 1 comprises a single alphabetical sequence.
Consignment 2 is organised into four alphabetical sequences. Items 1 - 388 are females discharged; items 399 - 968 are females deceased; items 969 - 1340 are males discharged and items 1341 - 1817 are males deceased.
Series notes:
Records basic personal information, previous medical history, and details of treatment for patients in both the Lachlan Park Hospital and Millbrook Rise Psychopathic Hospital (which merged to form the Royal Derwent Hospital).
The system of keeping patient notes in bound volumes on each ward at Lachlan Park was replaced by a system utilising pillar binders from which the sheets for individual patients could be removed on death or discharge in the 1930s. Millbrook Rise used this system from the outset.
Initially the sheets removed from ward Case Books were placed into separate volumes according to whether the patient was male or female and then dead or discharged but later this was abandoned in favour of a single alphabetical sequence of all patients (from both institutions).
It was the latter sequence which was transferred first and so consignment one is a single alphabetical sequence whereas consignment 2 contains four separate alphabetical sequences.
These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives
System of Arrangement:
Alphabetical
Items: