British Library, Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
Record types
- Administrative
- 1870 - 1892
- Finance
- 1870 - 1892
- Admission
- 1870 - 1892
- Clinical
- 1870 - 1892
Finding aids
- Finding aids
- Catalogue
- Location
- At Repository (AR)
- Details
- K/2
Hospital
Royal India Asylum
Last updated .
Important information
Information about this hospital might be outdated.
Details
- Previous Names
- Ealing Lunatic Asylum
- Address
- Elm Grove, Ealing, London
- Foundation Year
- 1870
- Status
- Closed (since 1892)
Administrative Authorities
- Pre-1974 County
- London
Status
- Pre-1948
- Private
- Pre-1948 information
- India Office
Type
- Pre-1948
- Mental, Military
Other information
In 1870 Pembroke House was sold; the India Office then acquired the Elm Grove estate, Ealing, and set about converting the house there to receive patients. The Royal India Asylum opened in the same year, with Dr Thomas Christie as its Superintendent. Future admissions were restricted to military patients and responsibility for the asylum passed from the India Office's Public to its Military Department. The asylum closed in 1892.
Record locations
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- Daybooks, ledgers, cash books and other financial records; registers of admissions, discharges, removals and deaths; transfers of patients 1892; medical visitation books and journals; casebooks; register of mechanical restraint, 1890-1891; Visitors Book and Patients Book