Catalogue description Newcastle Visiting Justices Committee minutes

Includes:-

Committee of Justices for the purpose of providing an asylum for the pauper lunatics of the Borough. Details of negotiations with asylums at Sedgefield and Dunston, and renting Bensham Asylum.

Plans and progress of the new asylum at Coxlodge. Appointments of medical officers (J Crichton Browne, later Hugh Grainger Stewart) and matron. Staffing requirements.

Supplies of food, clothing etc to the asylum.

Visits to Sedgefield, Dunston, Bensham and Coxlodge, including details of individual patients.

Visits of the Commissioners in Lunacy.

For Newcastle City Council Mental Hospital Visiting Committee minutes 1892 - 1948 SEE MD/NC/141/1-10

This Committee began in 1889 as the City Lunatic Asylum Special Committee, becoming the Lunatic Asylum Visiting Committee in 1892. From 1819 the name was changed to the City Mental Hospital Visiting Committee, but in 1925 the word 'City' was dropped. It was discontinued in 1948 when responsibility for the hospital was transferred to the National Health Service. Volume 4 of the minutes includes the Northumberland War Hospital Sub Committee.

For Newcastle City Council Care of the Mentally Defective Committee and Sub Committee minutes 1914 - 1948 SEE MD/NC/20/1-14.

This was a special committee set up in response to the Mentally Deficiency Act 1913. It was discontinued in 1948 with the advent of the NHS