BRH - Bethlem Royal Hospital - Catalogue of the records held at Bethlem Museum of the Mind

Provenance
BRH - Bethlem Royal Hospital

Date Range	1247 -
Related Provenance
Controlled	State Criminal Lunatic Asylum (1816 - )
Controlling	Bridewell and Bethlem Hospitals (1574 - 1948) [1574 - 1948] Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital (Joint Hospital) (1948 - 1982) [1948 - 1982] The Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital Special Health Authority (1982 - 1994) [1982 - 1994] The Bethlem and Maudsley NHS Trust (1994 - 1999) [1994 - 1999] South London and Maudsley NHS Trust (1999 - 2006) [1999]
Series	ADA General admission and discharge registers 1918 - 1991 AIB Patient admission indexes 1910 - c. 1993 APB Manual of procedures to document movement of patients c. 1940 - c. 1950 ARA General admission registers 1683 - 1973 ARB Incurable patient admission registers 1723 - 1919 ARC Voluntary boarder admission registers 1890 - 1930 ARG Papers on the maintenance of the hospital's administrative records 1938 - 1986 BAP Patient admission papers 1732 - c. 1960 BAR Annual reports 1825 - 1948 BCK Patient casualty registers 1927 - 1947 BCL Clothing ledgers 1771 - 1793 BCR Register of surgeons' and other consultants' visits 1836 - 1963 BCV Survey books and reports concerning hospital land 1764 - 1949 BDA Registers of bodies removed from mortuary 1931 - 1962 BEC Estates correspondence 1836 - 1953? BEN Entertainment programmes 1879 - 1939 BIF Furniture inventories 1785 - 1802 BKB Key books 1871 - 1920 BLR Tenancy and lease registers c. 1660 - c. 1968 BMA Steward's accounts for maintenance of patients 1662 - 1784 BMO Building records of hospital at Monks Orchard c. 1923 - c. 1962 BPP Admission papers of those not admitted as patients 1815 - 1848 BRB Rental books 1705 - 1844 BRM Building records of hospital at Moorfields 1800 BRR Rent rolls 1632 - 1944 BSA Steward's accounts and cash books 1712 - 1946 BSB Steward's report books 1919 - 1931 BTC Tithe apportionment for Wainfleet St Mary 1841 BTR Treatment registers 1922 - 1962 BWR Physician superintendent's weekly reports 1871 - 1948 CB Patient casebooks 1778 - 1947 CLB Letter books and files containing clerk's correspondence concerning Bethlem Royal and Bridewell Hospitals c. 1799 - 1929 CNR Contracts books 1797 - 1827 CRB Visiting clergy books 1931 - 1982 DDR Patient discharge, transfer and/or death registers and lists 1782 - 1991 ECA Material concerning hospital anniversary events 1946 - c. 1997 ECB Commemorative and other brochures produced by the hospital 1913 - c. 2022 ELB Physician superintendent's correspondence 1911 - 1951 EO Collection of prints and drawings 1676? - 1920? ESC Minutes of the Estates Sub-Committee 1818 - 1951 ESP Estate sales particulars 1815 - 1948 FLA Bethlem House Governor's correspondence with hospital's solicitors concerning Bethlem endowment estates 1919 - 1986 FLB Letterbooks containing incoming and copy outgoing general correspondence concerning Bethlem estates c. 1919 - c. 1945 GEZ Microfilmed minutes of the General Committee 1738 - 1952 GRD General, rent and expenditure ledgers 1775 - 1943 HBH Hospital histories 1700 - 2005 HCM Minutes of the Hospital Committee and predecessors 1709 - 1976 HCQ Minutes and papers of sub-committees and working parties of the Hospital Committee and its predecessor 1911 - 1975 HLB Correspondence and related filing concerning hospital estate at Monks Orchard c. 1927 - c. 1992 HPA Photographs of patients taken for the hospital by Henry Hering of Regent Street, London c. 1857 - c. 1859 HPB Glass negatives of photographs of patients taken for the hospital by Henry Hering of Regent Street, London c. 1857 - c. 1859 HPC Collections of photographs, postcards and related material c. 1861 - 1992 HPD Lithographs of patients observed by Dr Alexander Morison (some of them resident at Bethlem) made for successive editions of his 'Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' c. 1835 - c. 1840 HPE Glass negatives of images intended for inclusion in Rev Geoffrey O'Donoghue's 'The Story of Bethlehem Hospital' (1914) 1900 - 1913 IAP Incurable admission papers 1746 - 1852 ILB Incoming and copy outgoing correspondence with Board of Control and predecessor 1887 - 1948 ILC Incurable patient account ledger 1745 - 1760 JBS Sermons and religious instructions relating to the hospital c. 1673 - 1851 JBT Printed orders of service of memorial services for deceased staff 1941 - 1999 JLB Correspondence of Physician Superintendent and others concerning the hospital chapel 1922 - 1939 JSP Photographs of medical staff of, and other persons connected with, Bethlem, the Maudsley, or the Joint Hospital 1872 - 1998 LCP Ledger of current prices 1905 - 1909 LCR Reports on the hospital from the Commissioners in Lunacy, and the responses of the hospital 1852 - 1855 LEB Bills and acts of Parliament concerning the hospital, and related material 1781 - 2012 LEG Papers concerning patient complaints and legal actions c. 1770 - c. 1995 LGB Legacy books and related records 1738 - 1955 LLB Lincolnshire estates account and ledger books 1846 - 1921 LMC Manor court books for the Hospital's Lincolnshire estates 1763 - 1882 LSB Lantern slide catalogues 1905 - 1937 LSC Lantern slide collection c. 1900 - c. 1938 MRF Correspondence and papers concerning the Miller Relief Fund 1916 - 1922 MUZ Microfilmed muniment book 1553 - 1732 NEW Newspapers and journals, or extracts therefrom, collected by the hospitals 1642 - 1995 OPA Outpatient brochures c. 1919 - c. 1927 OPC Correspondence concerning the hospital's outpatient department c. 1920 - c. 1927 OPR Outpatient register c. 1919 - 1925 OPT Register of outpatient massage and electrical treatment 1919 - 1927 ORL Orchard Leaves, hospital magazine 1934 - 1937 PBB Patients' books 1864 - 1948 PLC Patient account ledgers and correspondence 1904 - 1978 PNL Patients Newsletters 1954 PPJ Papers of patients 1809 - 1999 SB Salary books and related records 1777 - 1988 SCM Minutes of Sports and Social Club and predecessor 1932 - 1973 SCO Sports Club's cricket section's scorebook 1933 - c. 1948 SCP Papers concerning conduct of staff 1818 - 1934 SEB Staff employment registers and related records c. 1833 - 1975 SEP Staff emergency procedures 1939 - 1975? SGF Building records of hospital at St George's Fields 1792 - 1939 SHR Minutes and papers of Joint Consultative Committee (Staff Side) and predecessor 1946 - 1955 SPB Private papers of members of staff 1798 - 1982 SRO Standing rules and orders 1778 - 1935 STO Resident physician's orders 1891 - 1901 TAT Thematic apperception testing 1940? - 1960? TBA Minutes of Planning Committee 1957 - 1965 TRA Treasurer's and Receiver's accounts 1708 - 1949 TRC Treasurer's and Receiver's cash books 1776 - 1940 UTD Under the Dome, hospital magazine 1892 - 1930 VAB Visitors' names and addresses books 1850 - 1924 VBB Visitors' books 1815 - 1866 VCB Visitors' comments books 1856 - 1930 VFB Visitors' fees books 1753 - 1811 VGR Visiting Governors' report books 1867 - 1948 VLC Visitors' books 1854 - 1948 VPW Visitors' and patients' books for Witley convalescent establishment 1878 - 1929 WSD Film of Wounded Soldiers' Day 1916 WUC Lantern slides, photographs and negatives held by Witley Unit c. 1888 - c. 1948 XAP Specifications, maps, plans and sketches of buildings, estates and land in Wainfleet St Mary, and other land belonging to Bethlem in Lincolnshire 1764 - 1914 XBP Maps and plans of land belonging to Bethlem at Charing Cross 1780? - 1829? XCP Plans of land belonging to Bethlem at Whitechapel 1927 XDP Plans of land belonging to Bethlem at Mile End 1843 - 1937 XEP Maps and plans of land belonging to Bethlem in Piccadilly 1851? - 1947 XFP Plans of land belonging to Bethlem in Lime Street, London 1699 - 1936 XGP Maps and plans of land belonging to Bethlem in Bishopsgate, London 1800? - 1866? XHP Maps of land belonging to Bethlem in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, and plans and sketches of buildings on these estates 1817 - 1936 XIP Maps of land belonging to Bethlem in East Kent, plans and specifications of buildings on these estates, and related material 1617 - 1982 XJP Maps and plans of land belonging to Bethlem in Lower Clapton, Median and Glenarm Roads, London 1893 - 1926 XKP Maps and plans of land belonging to Bethlem in Crouch Hill, London 1882 - 1934? XLP Maps and plans of land belonging to Bethlem in Shepherds Bush, London 1844 - 1936 XMP Maps and plans of land belonging to Bethlem in West Kent 1727 - 1950 XNP Maps and plans of land belonging to Bethlem in the environs of the City of London, excluding Bishopsgate and Lime Street 1889 - 1947 XOP Maps and plans of land belonging to Bethlem in George Street, Richmond, Surrey 1933 YAP Maps and plans of land and buildings on the hospital site at Moorfields 1808 - 1897 YBP Maps and plans of land and buildings on the hospital site at St George's Fields, Southwark 1755 - 1938 YCP Maps and plans of land and buildings on the hospital site at Monks Orchard, Beckenham 1836 - 1985 ZAP Ordnance Survey maps of land occupied, owned or otherwise relating to Bethlem and Maudsley Hospitals 1901 - 1982

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BRH - Bethlem Royal Hospital