Hospital

Countess of Chester Hospital

Last updated 20 September 1999.

Details

Previous Names

Cheshire County Lunatic Asylum (1829 - 1855)

Cheshire Lunatic Asylum (1855 - 1870)

Cheshire County Lunatic Asylum (1870 - 1921)

County Mental Hospital (1921 - 1948)

Upton Mental Hospital (1948 - c.1955)

Deva Hospital (c.1955 - c.1965)

West Cheshire Hospital (c.1965 - 1984)

Address

Liverpool Road, Chester, CH1 2BA

Current Trust

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Trust (since 1993)

Foundation Year

1829

Status

Open

Administrative Authorities

Regional Board (1948-1974)

Liverpool

Management Committee (1948-1974)

Upton Mental

Regional Authority (1974-1982)

Mersey

Regional Authority (Post-1982)

Mersey

District Authority (1974-1982)

Chester

District Authority (Post-1982)

Chester

Pre-1974 County

Cheshire

Post-1974 County

Cheshire

Post-1996 County

Cheshire

Status

Pre-1948

Local Authority, Other

Pre-1948 information

OTHER: 1829 - 1889 Cheshire County Magistrates.

LA: 1889 - 1948 Cheshire County Council.

Post-1948

NHS

Type

Pre-1948

Mental

Post-1948

Mental

Other information

Mental hospital will be closing in 1991.

Record locations

• Chester Archives

  Record types

  Administrative

  1827 - 1969

  General

  1848 - 1965

  Finance

  1856 - 1964

  Nursing

  1856 - 1864

  Staff

  1894 - 1949

  Admission

  1845 - 1964

  Clinical

  1829 - 1964

  Ephemera

  1911 - 1969

  Pictorial

  1827 - 1934

  Other

  1827 - 1940

  Finding aids

  Finding aids

  Catalogue

  Location

  At Repository (AR), National Register of Archives (NRA)

  Reception orders and other documents relating to patients 1829 - 1940; report books, post-morten registers, et, 1856-1964 (NRA 2004)

• Wellcome Library

  Record types

  Clinical

  1832 - 1839

  Finding aids

  Finding aids

  Catalogue

  Location

  At Repository (AR)

  MS 1587: prescription book, with a few clinical notes