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Hill End Hospital

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Important information

Information about this hospital might be outdated.

Details

Previous Names
Hertfordshire County Mental Hospital (1899 - c.1936)
Hill End Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases (c.1946 - c.1938)
Hill End Hospital and Clinic for the Prevention and Treatment of Mental and Nervous Disorders (c.1948 - 1948)
Address
Hill End Road, St Albans, AL4 0RB
Foundation Year
1899
Status
Closed (since 1997)

Administrative Authorities

Regional Board (1948-1974)
North West Metropolitan
Management Committee (1948-1974)
Mid Hertfordshire Group
Regional Authority (1974-1982)
North West Thames
Regional Authority (Post-1982)
North West Thames
District Authority (1974-1982)
North West
District Authority (Post-1982)
North West Hertfordshire
Pre-1974 County
Hertfordshire
Post-1974 County
Hertfordshire
Post-1996 County
Not applicable

Status

Pre-1948
Local Authority
Pre-1948 information
LA: Hertfordshire County Council.
Post-1948
NHS

Type

Pre-1948
Mental
Post-1948
Acute, Mental
Post-1948 information
AC: 1948 - 1962 Some beds controlled by St Bartholemews.

Other information

In 1931 the hospital had a nominal capacity of 952 beds. Private patients were charged between £1 5s and £3 3s per week, and there was a separate country house for paying women patients. During World War II it served as a military hospital run by St Bartholemews, and after the War St Bartholemews continued to control about one quarter of the beds - for acute patients - the rest of the hospital being devoted to mental patients. This arrangement continued until c.1962. From 1860 mental patients from Hertfordshire were accommodated at the Three Counties Asylum (shared by Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, and Huntingdonshire) In the early 1890's Hertfordshire County Council decided that new accommodation was required and 185 acres of farmland at Hill End on the outskirts of St Albans was purchased with a view to building an asylum for Hertfordshire patients. A visiting committee was later appointed to oversee the construction of the asylum and run it when it was built. The first patients were admitted to the asylum in April 1899.

Record locations

  • Harperbury Hospital

    Record types

    Administrative
    1890 - 1988
    Admission
    1900 - 1988
    Clinical
    1890 - 1988
    Further minutes and annual reports, Off Acc 1428 (NRA 2005)

  • Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

    Record types

    Administrative
    1738 - 1995
    General
    1893 - 1992
    Finance
    1899 - 1947
    Estates
    1738 - 1949
    Staff
    1899 - 1960
    Admission
    1907 - 1963
    Clinical
    1899 - 1978
    Ephemera
    1899 - 1995
    Pictorial
    1940 - 1960
    Other
    1995 - 1995

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Catalogue, Computerised
    Location
    At Repository (AR)
    Details
    HM1: catalogue fully available via CALMView http://calm02.hertscc.gov.uk/calmview/ on repository website
    Other: draft history and working papers (Acc 3959)

  • Hill End Hospital

    Record types

    Administrative
    1900 - 1988
    Admission
    1900 - 1988
    Clinical
    1930 - 1940
    Ephemera
    1920 - 1949
    Hospital now closed - no current information on whereabouts of these records - possibly at Harperbury