Catalogue description WONFORD HOUSE HOSPITAL, EXETER

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

Details of 3992 F
Reference: 3992 F
Title: WONFORD HOUSE HOSPITAL, EXETER
Description:

The records of this hospital include Governors' minutes, 1801-1873, 1942-1949 (the minute books for the missing years were destroyed when Exeter was bombed in 1942), annual reports, 1801-1866, 1880-1948, Visitors' books, 1830-1895, ledgers, account books and other financial papers, 1795-1951, staff registers, 1914-1948, wages' books, 1817-1949, medical and case books, 1812-1948, admission and patient registers and papers, 1801-1948, and registers of discharges and deaths, 1845-1959.
Held by: Devon Archives and Local Studies Service (South West Heritage Trust), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

St Thomas Hospital for Lunatics, 1801-1869

Wonford House Hospital, Exeter
Access conditions:

All records containing information relating to patients are closed for 100 years from the date of the latest entry.
Immediate source of acquisition:

Records of Wonford House Hospital and its predecessor, Bowhill House St. Thomas' Hospital, Exeter, were collected from Exeter Mental Health Unit (Wonford House Hospital), 4 November 1985
Subjects:
  • Health services
  • Mental health
Administrative / biographical background:

The foundation of this mental hospital originated from a bequest of £200 in 1795 to build a lunatic ward at the Devon and Exeter Hospital. It was agreed to add this sum to further funds made available through Bishop Buller of Exeter in order to build a separate lunatic asylum and, following further subscriptions from other philanthropic sources, this was opened as the St Thomas Hospital for Lunatics in 1801. Lack of space resulted in a move to new premises at Wonford House, Heavitree, in 1869.
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