Series LEB - Bills and acts of Parliament concerning the hospital, and related material


Date Range1781 - 2012
Quantity162.7 cm, 47 envelopes, volumes, boxes, files and items
ProvenanceBethlem Royal Hospital
Related Series
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08  Ephemera


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LEB-01 Acts concerning the hospital, and lunacy administration generally

Geo III (regn 22) cap LXXVII (27 Nov 1781), Geo II (regn 48) cap XCVI (23 June 1808), Geo III (regn 59) cap CXXVII (12 July 1819), Vic (regn 2-3) (1 July 1839), Vic (regn 8-9) cap C (4 Aug 1845), Vic (regn 8-9) cap CXXVI (8 Aug 1845), Vic (regn 16-17) cap LXX (15 Aug 1853), Vic (regn 16-17) cap XCVI (20 Aug 1853), Vic (regn 16-17) cap XCVII (20 Aug 1853) and Vic (regn 16-17) cap CXXXVII (20 Aug 1853)
This item contains references to: medical legislation.

Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 27 November 1781 - 20 August 1853, 1781, 1808, 1819, 1839, 1845 and 1853    Quantity 4 cm, 1 envelope
Formats Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier LEB-01 Series Box Number E5-1 Series LEB
LEB-02 Act of Parliament (Geo III (regn 22) cap LXXVII) concerning an agreement between the City of London and the five Royal Hospitals

This item contains references to: medical legislation; estate management.

Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 1781    Quantity 1 cm, 1 volume
Formats Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier LEB-02 Series Box Number E5-1 Series LEB
LEB-03 Copies of Acts and Bills concerning the hospital, and lunacy administration generally

Includes return forms and other material related to the hospital's duties under the Tithe Act 1936 with respect to their Wainfleet estates.
This item contains references to: medical legislation; estate management; Wainfleet St Mary, Lincolnshire.

Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 1783 - 1936, 1783, 1821, 1829, 1839, 1890-91 and 1936    Quantity 30 cm, 2 boxes
Formats Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier LEB-03 Series Box Number E3-1 Series LEB
LEB-04 Acts of Parliament concerning lunacy administration

This item contains references to: medical legislation.

Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 4 July 1803 - 25 June 1847    Quantity 4 cm, 1 file
Formats Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier LEB-04 Series Box Number E5-1 Series LEB
LEB-05 Copies of Act of Parliament (Geo III (regn 50)) to enable the City of London to grant lands in St George's Fields for the purpose of erecting a new hospital

This item contains references to: medical legislation.

Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 15 June 1810    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier LEB-05 Series Box Number E5-1 Series LEB
LEB-06 Papers concerning Act of Parliament (Geo III (regn 53) cap 113), and relief for poor prisoners

This item contains references to: medical legislation; poverty.

Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Control Box 62
Date range 1813 - c. 1839, 1813 and c1830-c1839    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier LEB-06 Series Box Number H2-8 Series LEB
LEB-07 Copies of Act of Parliament concerning the hospital (as well as Bridewell and Christ's Hospital), its Wainfleet estates and related matters

Geo III (regn 53) cap 201, Vic (regn 18-19) cap CXXIV, Vic (regn 34-35) cap CXXII, Edw VII (regn 1) cap CXCIX, Edw VII (regn 1) cap CCXXXIV and Edw VII (regn 1) cap CCXIII.
This item contains references to: medical legislation; Wainfleet St Mary, Lincolnshire.

Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 1813 - 1901, 1813, 1855, 1871 and 1901    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier LEB-07 Series Box Number G1-2 Series LEB
LEB-08 Copies of Bills on lunacy legislation presented to Parliament, and related pamphlets

This item contains references to: medical legislation.

Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Control Box 63
Date range 1814 - 1817    Quantity 29 cm, 1 box
Formats Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier LEB-08 Series Box Number E3-1 Series LEB
LEB-09 Papers stating the opposition of the hospital governors to proposed lunacy legislation

This item contains references to: medical legislation.

Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Control Box 63
Date range 1814 - 1817    Quantity 16 cm, 1 box
Inventory Identifier LEB-09 Series Box Number E6-1 Series LEB
LEB-10 Copies of Act of Parliament (Geo IV (regn 6) cap L) for confirming leases and permission to grant building lease, and related papers

This item contains references to: medical legislation.

Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Control Box 62
Date range 5 July 1825    Quantity 8 cm, 1 file
Formats Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier LEB-10 Series Box Number E6-1 Series LEB
LEB-11 Act of Parliament (Geo IV (regn 9) cap XL) to amend law on county lunatic asylums

This item contains references to: medical legislation.

Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 15 July 1828    Quantity 1 cm, 1 volume
Formats Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier LEB-11 Series Box Number E5-1 Series LEB
LEB-12 Bills concerning lunacy administration generally

10 Geo IV sess 1829 (1 May 1829), 10 Vic (19 Mar 1847), 10 Vic (10 Jun 1847), 10 Vic (16 Jun 1847) and 62 Vic (1899).
This item contains references to: medical legislation.

Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 1 May 1829 - 1899, 1829, 1847 and 1899    Quantity 2 cm, 1 envelope
Formats Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier LEB-12 Series Box Number E5-1 Series LEB
LEB-13 Acts of Parliament (Vic (regn 6-7) cap LXX and Vic (regn 15-16) cap LXXXVI) on Lunacy Commissioners and lunacy administration generally

This item contains references to: medical legislation.

Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 15 August 1853 - 7 August 1862, 1852 and 1862    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier LEB-13 Series Box Number E3-1 Series LEB
LEB-14 Bethlem Hospital Act (Vic (regn 34-35) cap CXXII)

Inscribed 'W Rhys Williams MD, Resident Physician 26 March 1874'.
This item contains references to: medical legislation.

Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 13 July 1871    Quantity 1 cm, 1 volume
Formats Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier LEB-14 Series Box Number G1-2 Series LEB
LEB-15 Copies of Lunacy Acts Amendment Act

This item contains references to: medical legislation.

Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 1889    Quantity 1 cm, 7 volumes
Formats Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier LEB-15 Series Box Number G1-2 Series LEB
LEB-16 Copies of Lunacy Act

A pamphlet by R. Percy Smith (hospital physician 1888-1898) entitled 'Defects in the Working of the Lunacy Act' is attached to the inside front cover of one copy of the Act.
This item contains references to: Smith, Robert Percy; medical legislation.

Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 1890    Quantity 4 cm, 4 volumes
Formats Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier LEB-16 Series Box Number G1-2 Series LEB
LEB-17 Framed notice with an extract from the Lunacy Act (Vic (regn 53) cap V, sect 41.1) concerning patient correspondence

This item contains references to: medical legislation.

Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range c. 1890    Quantity 1 cm, 1 item
Formats Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier LEB-17 Series Box Number H2-8 Series LEB
LEB-18 Act to amend the Lunacy Act (Vic (regn 54-55) cap LXV)

This item contains references to: medical legislation.

Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 5 August 1891    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier LEB-18 Series Box Number G1-2 Series LEB
LEB-19 Copies of Bethlem Hospital Act (Geo V (regn 15-16))

This item contains references to: medical legislation.

Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Control Box 40
Date range 15 July 1926    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier LEB-19 Series Box Number E3-1 Series LEB
LEB-20 Copies of Bethlem Royal Hospital Act (Geo V (regn 18-19))

This item contains references to: medical legislation.

Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 2 July 1928    Quantity 1 cm, 1 file
Formats Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier LEB-20 Series Box Number G1-2 Series LEB
LEB-21 Copy of memorandum of guidance to hospital authorities on parts I, IV to VII and IX of the Mental Health Act 1959

Formerly in library of the Maudsley Hospital's Professional Development Centre.

Creator Maudsley Hospital
Date range 1960    Quantity 1 cm, 1 booklet
Formats Books
Inventory Identifier LEB-21 Series Box Number G1-2 Series LEB
LEB-22 Copy of Mental Health Act 1983

Formerly in library of the School of Nursing Library.

Creator The Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital Special Health Authority
Date range 1986    Quantity 1 cm, 1 booklet
Formats Books
Inventory Identifier LEB-22 Series Box Number G1-2 Series LEB
LEB-23 Out of the Maze: Your Guide to the Mental Health Act 1983

Published by the Maudsley Hospital's Mental Health Act Office as a guide for patients.
This item contains references to: medical legislation; patient education.

Creator The Bethlem and Maudsley NHS Trust
Date range 1996    Quantity 1 cm, 1 booklet
Formats General Publications
Inventory Identifier LEB-23 Series Box Number G1-2 Series LEB
LEB-24 The Maze: Mental Health Act Guidelines

Published by the Maudsley Hospital's Mental Health Act Office as a guide for staff.
This item contains references to: medical legislation.

Creator The Bethlem and Maudsley NHS Trust
Date range 1997    Quantity 1 cm, 1 booklet
Formats General Publications
Inventory Identifier LEB-24 Series Box Number G1-2 Series LEB
LEB-25 Copy of Clause 6 (?) of Act 9th Geo. 3rd on land tax relating to the hospital
Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Control Box 61(4)
Date range 1860?    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 booklet
Formats Legal Documents
Inventory Identifier LEB-25 Series Box Number E6-1 Series LEB
LEB-26 Papers and correspondence regarding the House of Commons committee on madhouses

This item contains references to: Norris, James, Poynder, John

Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 1815    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 envelope
Formats General Correspondence and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier LEB-26 Series Box Number E6-2 Series LEB
LEB-27 Order for return of prices of provisions at Bethlem Hospital to be presented to the House of Commons
Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 18 March 1854    Quantity 0.1 cm, 1 envelope
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier LEB-27 Series Box Number E6-2 Series LEB
LEB-28 A Bill for regulating the care and treatment of insane persons in England and associated papers and correspondence
Creator Bridewell and Bethlem Hospitals
Date range 1831    Quantity 2 cm, 1 file
Formats General Correspondence and Published Reports
Inventory Identifier LEB-28 Series Box Number E6-3 Series LEB
LEB-29 The Maze: A Practical Guide to the Mental Health Act 1983 (Amended 2007)

2nd edition of LEB-24.

Creator South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Date range 2012    Quantity 1 cm, 1 booklet
Formats General Publications
Inventory Identifier LEB-29 Series Box Number G1-2 Series LEB
LEB-30 The Charters of Bethlem Hospital

Click here to view a version of this book dated to 1807 held in the Wellcome Collection.

Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 1800 - 1899, Nineteenth century- 1807?    Quantity 5 cm, 1 booklet
Inventory Identifier LEB-30 Series Box Number E6-1 Series LEB
LEB-31 Papers relating to purchase of land from the Worshipful Company of Drapers and enabling Act of Parliament
Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 1806    Quantity 5 cm, 1 bundle
Inventory Identifier LEB-31 Series Box Number E6-1 Series LEB
LEB-32 Correspondence and documents relating to a petition against Surrey Sussex Road Bills
Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 1835    Quantity 15 cm, 1 box
Inventory Identifier LEB-32 Series Box Number E6-1 Series LEB
LEB-33 National Health Service Act
Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 1946    Quantity 5 cm, 1 folder
Inventory Identifier LEB-33 Series Box Number G2-6 Series LEB
LEB-34 Mental Health Act 1983 Guidelines

Policy No.2

Creator The Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital Special Health Authority
Date range 1987    Quantity 5 cm, 1 booklet
Inventory Identifier LEB-34 Series Box Number D1-1 Series LEB
LEB-35 Correspondence and legal advice on 1920 Ministry of Health Bill
Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 1920    Quantity 2 cm, 1 folder
Inventory Identifier LEB-35 Series Box Number E5-3 Series LEB
LEB-36 Copy of order of House of Commons in relation to provisions at Bethlem Royal Hospital, with cover letter
Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 1854    Quantity 2 cm, 1 folder
Inventory Identifier LEB-36 Series Box Number E6-2 Series LEB
LEB-37 Bethlem Hospital Act 1928 copies of notice of motion
Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 1928    Quantity 2 cm, 1 folder
Inventory Identifier LEB-37 Series Box Number H6-4 Series LEB
LEB-38 Authorities from the Lord Chancellor for the Governors to act as a Corporation
Creator Bethlem Royal Hospital
Date range 1926 - 1935    Quantity 2 cm, 1 folder
Inventory Identifier LEB-38 Series Box Number H6-4 Series LEB

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