Hospital
Bootham Park Hospital
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Important information
Information about this hospital might be outdated.
Details
- Previous Names
- The York Lunatic Asylum (1777 - 1904)
- Address
- Bootham, York, YO3 7BY
- Current Trust
- York Health Services NHS Trust (since 1992)
- Foundation Year
- 1772
- Status
- Open
Administrative Authorities
- Regional Board (1948-1974)
- Leeds
- Management Committee (1948-1974)
- York (A) and Tadcaster
- Regional Authority (1974-1982)
- Yorkshire
- Regional Authority (Post-1982)
- Yorkshire
- District Authority (Post-1982)
- York
- Pre-1974 County
- Yorkshire
- Post-1974 County
- North Yorkshire
- Post-1996 County
- North Yorkshire
Status
- Pre-1948
- Private, Voluntary
- Pre-1948 information
- VOL/PRIV: A charitable hospital also supported by patients' fees.
- Post-1948
- NHS
Type
- Pre-1948
- Mental
- Pre-1948 information
- MNT: A registered hospital for the care and cure of the insane under 1845 Lunacy Act
- Post-1948
- Mental
Other information
Opened in 1777. Brief history in Anne Digby, From York Lunatic Asylum to Bootham Park Hospital (University of York, Borthwick Paper no 69, 1986), and short history of the hospital to be included in forthcoming guide to hospital records at Borthwick Institute by K Webb (in progress 1999)
Record locations
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York University: Borthwick Institute of Historical Research
Record types
- Administrative
- 1772 - 1989
- General
- 1813 - 1984
- Finance
- 1772 - 1948
- Estates
- 1816 - 1983
- Nursing
- 1905 - 1962
- Staff
- 1857 - 1962
- Admission
- 1777 - 1960
- Clinical
- 1863 - 1960
- Ephemera
- 1857 - 1989
- Pictorial
- 1880 - 1989
Finding aids
- Finding aids
- Catalogue
- Location
- At Repository (AR), National Register of Archives (NRA)