The records detail hundreds of former patients at the Stanley Royd Hospital, part of the West Riding Pauper Asylum, between 1814 and 1991. They are currently being held by West Yorkshire Archive ...

Admissions records typically provide basic details about a patient, including their occupation, age, religion, suspected cause of mental illness, and the events that led them to the asylum.

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According to asylum records, she was "feebleminded," "mentally deficient," "crippled" and suffered from seizures. She died of apoplexy when she was 16. She lies in grave No. 81.

They left all kinds of amazing objects inside these buildings, including patient records in leather-bound volumes. The exterior of Chapin House, Willard’s central building that was demolished in ...

In 2019, Columbia’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library acquired The New York Bloomingdale Insane Asylum records, 1880-1910, comprising eight ledgers divided into three series: Admission records that ...

The Archives of Ontario has in its possession the asylum’s early records (1841 to 1998), which are fascinating review. The early patient registers are available on microfilm in the archive’s reading ...

OIL CITY, Penn., March 24.--Several months ago Robert G. Ingersoll lectured in this city, and among his audience was a resident named John Carroll.