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Camberwell House Lunatic Asylum.

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Unknown Report 12 May 2015 21:54

Hi everyone!
Does anyone know how I can obtain the medical records of an inmate, who was resident in Camberwell House Lunatic Asylum, from 1851 to 1858?

Many thanks,
Bev

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 12 May 2015 22:18

Have you looked at the Wellcome Library website

But there are several if you google

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malyon

malyon Report 12 May 2015 22:25

http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=11050&inst_id=20

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 12 May 2015 22:36

Following through from Yvonne's URL, a description of the Holding is here
(Wellcome Library site)
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http://tiny.cc/8va1xx

Camberwell House Asylum
Summary

Volumes 2-3 of the case books of Camberwell House, a private lunatic asylum (metropolitan licensed house) at Camberwell, Surrey.

The casebooks contain records for approximately 900 people. The volumes contain no internal indexes but an alphabetical list of patient names has been compiled for each volume (see individual item level records for MS.6220 and MS.6221).

Volume 2 contains records for people admitted 1847-1850 with further notes on the some of the same patients through 1876. Volume 3 contains admission records for 1850-1853 with further records on some of the same patients through 1887.
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Unknown

Unknown Report 13 May 2015 15:50

Many thanks for replies to my question re. Camberwell House Lunatic Asylum. :-)