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Details: Camberwell House Asylum, London

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Name

  

Present name

Camberwell House Asylum 

Address

Peckham Road London SE5 

Foundation Year

1846 

Closed

Yes 

Closure year

1955 

Administrative authorities

Regional Hospital Board (1948-74)

Not Applicable 

Hospital Management Committee (1948-74)

Not Applicable 

Regional Health Authority (1974-82)

Not Applicable 

Regional Health Authority (1982- )

Not Applicable 

District Health Authority (1974-82)

Not Applicable 

District Health Authority (1982- )

Not Applicable 

County (before 1974)

Surrey/London 

County (1974-1996)

Greater London 

County (after 1996)

Not applicable 

Status

Pre 1948

Private

Post 1948

Private

Type

Pre 1948

Mental

Post 1948

Mental

 

Records can be found at:
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  Wellcome Library

Record type

Date range

Clinical & Patients

1847 - 1887

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Notes

MSS 6220, 6221

Royal College of Psychiatrists

Record type

Date range

Administrative

1846 - 1865

   General

1846 - 1865

   Admission & Discharge

1846 - 1848

Clinical & Patients

1846 - 1865

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Brief Guide(BG)

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Details

Notes

First vol of case book, admissions 1846-1847 with later entries, Commissioners in Lunacy Visitors' Book, 1846-1865, orders for the receptions of pauper patients, 1846-1848
 
 
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