Glamorgan Archives
Record types
- Administrative
- 1906 - 1969
- General
- 1906 - 1969
- Finance
- 1945 - 1969
- Admission
- 1914 - 1969
- Clinical
- 1914 - 1949
Finding aids
- Finding aids
- Catalogue
- Location
- At Repository (AR), National Register of Archives (NRA)
Hospital
Ely Hospital
Last updated .
Important information
Information about this hospital might be outdated.
Details
- Address
- Cowbridge Road, Cardiff
- Foundation Year
- 1903
- Status
- Closed (since 1996)
Administrative Authorities
- Regional Board (1948-1974)
- Welsh
- Management Committee (1948-1974)
- Whitchurch and Ely
- Regional Authority (1974-1982)
- Wales
- Regional Authority (Post-1982)
- Wales
- District Authority (1974-1982)
- South Glamorgan (Teaching)
- District Authority (Post-1982)
- South Glamorgan
- Pre-1974 County
- Cardiff County Borough
- Post-1974 County
- South Glamorgan
- Post-1996 County
- Cardiff
Status
- Pre-1948
- Poor Law
- Post-1948
- NHS
Type
- Pre-1948
- Mental
- Post-1948
- Mental
Other information
Established by Cardiff Poor Law Union in grounds of Ely Lodge Children's Homes 1903. Essentially, Ely Hospital was a Poor Law Institution before 1948 serving both as a hospice and a hospital for mental patients. 1903 is the first date we can discover for the hospital. As in the case of Many Poor Law Institutions, its medical functions evolved over a number of years from the other services of the PLU.
Record locations
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- Masrer and Medical Superintendent's Journals, 1906 - 1958; report books 1914 - 1948; Visiting committee books 1938 - 1969; registers of lunatics and persons of unsound mind 1919 - 1949; Creed registers 1914 - 1940; orders for detention of lunatics 1914 - 1923; patients (deaths and discharges) papers 1930 - 1947.