London Metropolitan Archives
BEXLEYHOSPITAL
H65
Covering Dates: 1897 - 1986
Extent: 21 linear metres
History
BexleyHospital was founded in 1898 in Old Bexley Lane, Bexley. (It is not the Bexley Hospital in Bexleyheath which was founded in 1884). It has also been known as Heath Asylum, Bexley Asylum, BexleyMental Hospital and London County Asylum, Bexley. The hospital closed in around 2001.
BexleyHospital was administered by the South East Metropolitan Hospital Board (1948 - 1974), the South East Thames Regional Health Authority (1974-), the Bexley District Health Authority (1974-) and Oxleas NHS Trust (1995-)
Source of information: The National Archives, Hospital Records Database (
Arrangement of Records
The records are arranged as follows:
H65/A/01 ADMINISTRATION: MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT BOOKS
H65/A/02 ADMINISTRATION: WARD INVENTORY BOOKS
H65/A/03 ADMINISTRATION: EQUIPMENT RECEIPT AND ISSUE BOOKS
H65/B/01 PATIENTS' RECORDS: ALPHABETICAL REGISTERS
H65/B/02 PATIENTS' RECORDS: REGISTERS OF PATIENTS
H65/B/03 PATIENTS' RECORDS: ADMISSION AND DISCHARGE REGISTERS
H65/B/04 PATIENTS' RECORDS: CIVIL REGISTERS
H65/B/05 PATIENTS' RECORDS: REGISTERS OF DISCHARGES, REMOVALS AND DEATHS
H65/B/06 PATIENTS' RECORDS: REGISTERS OF DISCHARGES AND TRANSFERS
H65/B/07 PATIENTS' RECORDS: REGISTERS OF DEPARTURES, DISCHARGES AND TRANSFERS
H65/B/08 PATIENTS' RECORDS: DISCHARGE ORDERS
H65/B/09 PATIENTS' RECORDS: REGISTERS OF DEATHS
H65/B/10 PATIENTS' RECORDS: CASE BOOKS
H65/B/11 PATIENTS' RECORDS: MEDICAL REGISTERS
H65/B/12 PATIENTS' RECORDS: RECEPTION ORDERS
H65/B/13 PATIENTS' RECORDS: BIRTH REGISTERS
H65/B/14 PATIENTS' RECORDS: REGISTERS OF BURIALS
H65/B/15 PATIENTS' RECORDS: POST MORTEM BOOKS
H65/B/16 PATIENTS' RECORDS: REGISTERS OF MECHANICAL RESTRAINT
H65/B/17 PATIENTS' RECORDS: REGISTERS OF INHERITED MENTAL DISORDERS
H65/B/18 PATIENTS' RECORDS: PATIENTS ABSENT ON TRIAL
H65/C/01 STAFF RECORDS: STAFF REGISTERS
H65/D/01 FINANCE: LEDGERS
H65/D/02 FINANCE: LEDGERS: PRIVATE PATIENTS
H65/D/03 FINANCE: TREASURERS' ACCOUNTS
H65/D/04 FINANCE: CASH ACCOUNTS
H65/D/05 FINANCE: DAY BOOK EQUIPMENT
H65/E/01 RELATED DOCUMENTATION: PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
Scope and Content
Medical superintendent's reports (1907 - 1916); staff registers (1897 - 1944); accounts and ledgers (1899 - 1939); patient admissions and discharges (1899 - 1972); case books (1899 - 1951); medical registers (1898 - 1952); post mortem books (1898 - 1949); death registers (1907 - 1982); burial registers (1900 - 1917); civil registers (1910 - 1948); mechanical restraint registers (1934 - 1961); birth registers (1979 - 1986); equipment books (1901 - 1902); ward and office inventories (1901 - 1948).
Access
These records are subject to an 85-year closure period (except H65/E/01/001 which is closed for 100 years).
Related Material
London County Council records:
LCC/MIN/807-845 Bexley Asylum Sub-committee minutes (1898 - 1948)
LCC/MIN/846-847 Bexley Asylum presented papers (1938 - 1948)
LCC/PH/MENT/4/11-12 Lists of patients admitted, died and recommended for discharge (1913 - 1928)
South East Thames Regional Authority records:
HA/SE/322: Annual statistical returns of BexleyHospital and Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup (1948 - 1986)
Records of King Edward's Hospital Fund for London:
A/KE/736/2 King Edward's Hospital Fund for London reports and papers relating to BexleyHospital (1954 - 1959)
A/KE/716/048 Bexley: distribution of food to patients (1953 Jun)
Listed by Stacey Harmer
October 2010
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