British Library, Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
Record types
- Administrative
- 1845 - 1870
- General
- 1857 - 1865
- Admission
- 1845 - 1870
- Clinical
- 1830 - 1870
Finding aids
- Finding aids
- Catalogue
- Location
- At Repository (AR)
- Details
- K/2
Hospital
Pembroke House
Last updated .
Important information
Information about this hospital might be outdated.
Details
- Address
- Hackney, London
- Foundation Year
- Unknown
- Status
- Closed (since 1870)
Administrative Authorities
- Pre-1974 County
- London
Status
- Pre-1948
- Private
- Pre-1948 information
- East India Company (also their civil servants)
Type
- Pre-1948
- Mental, Military
Other information
In 1818, the East India Company made arrangements to send any of its servants who became insane while in India back to Britain, and to lodge them with Dr George Rees of Pembroke House, Hackney. The Company paid Dr Rees £40 a year for each soldier, sailor or minor civil servant (second-class patients) and £100 a year for officers and senior civil servants (first-class patients). Although patients were expected to reimburse the Company from their pension or other income, in practice the Company subsidised many of the second-class patients. It was sold in 1870 and the India Office acquired the Elm Grove estate, Ealing, and set about converting the house there to receive patients. The Royal India Asylum opened there in the same year for military patients only
Record locations
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- Medical Certificates, registers of admissions, discharges, removals and deaths, case books, Medical Visitation books, miscellanous correspondence and numerical returns