Catalogue description EXE VALE HOSPITAL EXMINSTER

This record is held by Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust)

Details of 3769 A
Reference: 3769 A
Title: EXE VALE HOSPITAL EXMINSTER
Description:

The collection also contains some admission papers and other records of Digby Hospital, Exeter (see 4034 A, 4034A-1 and 4034 A-2), as well as minutes of Devon Mental Hospital Management Committee (responsible for Exminster, Wonford House and Digby Hospitals), 1953-1961.
Arrangement:

Visitors Records 3769 A/H1

 

Patients Records 3769 A/H2-H33

 

Admissions (including Medical Records to 1909) 3769 A/H2-H16

 

Discharges and Deaths (including Medical Records from 1909) 3769 A/H17-H32

 

Burial Records (special code) 3769 A/HR

 

Miscellaneous 3769 A/H33

 

Staff Records 3769 A/H34-45

 

Administrative Records 3769 A/H46-63

 

Records of other Institutions 3769 A/HZ1-7

 

Miscellaneous 3769 A/Z
Related material:

There are Visiting Justices' reports, 1847-1908, and minutes, 1841-1926, as well as other related material in the Devon County Quarter Sessions' records.
Held by: Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Devon County Lunatic Asylum, Exminster

Exe Vale Hospital, Exminster
Access conditions:

These records are subject to restrictions on access. There is a hundred-year bar on all material except that in sections 3769 A/HR and 3769/H59.
Subjects:
  • Health services
  • Mental health
Administrative / biographical background:

Commonly known as Exminster Hospital, it was finally commissioned in 1841 by Devon Quarter Sessions from the eminent London architect, Charles Fowler, after various attempts to establish a county asylum over the previous 22 years had come to nothing and just before it became mandatory for counties to provide asylums for the mentally ill. J.C. Bucknill, who has been described as a 'key figure in the consolidation period of psychiatric reform', was appointed as its first Superintendent and patients were admitted in August 1845. It was then known as Devon County Lunatic Asylum, Exminster.

 

Transferred to the National Health Service in 1948, it was closed (as Exe Vale Hospital) in July 1986
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