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Details
Previous Names
Shrewsbury Hospital (Shelton)
Shelton Hospital (1948-)
Copthorne and Shelton Emergency Hospital (1940-1941)
Salop Mental Hospital (1921-1948)
Shropshire and Borough of Wenlock Lunatic Asylum (191101921)
Lunatic Asylum for the Counties of Salop and Montgomery, and for the Borough of Much Wenlock (1864-1911)
Shropshire and Montgomeryshire and Wenlock Borough, Shrewsbury and Oswestry Lunatic Asylum (1851-1863)
Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Counties and Wenlock Borough Lunatic Asylum (1846-1851)
Shropshire and Wenlock Borough Lunatic Asylum (1845-1846)
Address
Bicton Heath, Shelton
Current Trust
Shropshire's Community and Mental Health Services NHS Trust (since 1993)
Previous Trusts
Shropshire's Mental Health NHS Trust
Foundation Year
1845
Status
Open
Administrative Authorities
Regional Board (1948-1974)
Birmingham
Management Committee (1948-1974)
Shrewsbury
Regional Authority (1974-1982)
West Midlands
Regional Authority (Post-1982)
West Midlands
District Authority (1974-1982)
Salop
District Authority (Post-1982)
Shropshire
Pre-1974 County
Salop
Post-1974 County
Shropshire
Post-1996 County
Shropshire
Status
Pre-1948
Local Authority
Post-1948
NHS, Trust
Post-1948 information
Now an NHS Trust
Type
Pre-1948
Mental
Post-1948
Acute, Geriatric, Mental
Post-1948 information
Sometime c. 1990s changed over to become a more general institution
Other information
See Introduction to list prepared by Shropshire Records and Research with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund, 2000
See General Information available in Kelly's Directories.
Shropshire records and research
SRR 6175 Salop and Montgomeryshire Asylum, patient and staff records, temporary list
Records closed for 100 years except for searches by staff.
No Records for 1870 - 1883, 1891 - 1905
See MM with any queries.
Patient Records:
Index of next of kin includes details of admission and discharge/death arranged by name of patient 1840s - 1860s
Chargeable Patients register includes details of patients arranged by union 1884 - 1890
Treatment Registers:
These include details of medical treatment as well as admission and discharge/death. The dates are date of admission so information included may be later in date. NB These are not all indexed but require admission number sometimes found in the other records. c1910 - 1926
Males c1910 - 1920
Males (indexed) 1920 - 1926
Females (not indexed) 1917 - 1922
Continuation reports of treatment 1948 - 1960
Civil Registers:
Admission registers: 1907 - 1948
Civil register (indexed) 1907 1909
Civil register (indexed) 1919 - 1922
Civil register (indexed) 1926 - 1929
Civil register (indexed) 1922 - 1930
Civil register, voluntary patients (indexed) 1931 - 1945
Civil register, voluntary patients (indexed) 1945 - 1948
Civil register, voluntary patients (indexed) 1935 - 1940
Civil register, voluntary patients (indexed) 1940 - 1946
Civil register, voluntary patients (indexed) 1946 - 1948
Discharge registers: 1906 - 1946
Registers of discharges and transfers 1906 - 1930
Register of discharges of voluntary, certified and temporary patients 1930 - 1942
Register of discharges of voluntary patients 1942 - 1946
Register of discharges of voluntary patients 1946 - 1948
Death Registers:
Register of deaths (indexed) 1907 - 1930
Register of deaths (indexed) 1931 - 1943
Register of deaths (not indexed) 1943 - 1948
Post Mortem registers
Female (not indexed) 1941 - 1950
Male (not indexed) 1944 - 1950
Register of mechanical restraint 1957 - 1959
Patients' cash register 1969 - 1970
Staff Records
Service registers c1910 - 1950s
Male attendent obligation book 1882 - 1896
Male attendent obligation book 1912 - 1922
Male attendent obligation book 1938 - 1946
Male staff book 1940 - 1954
Register of pensions 1928 - 1943.