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D4538 - Derby Borough Council - 1836-1974

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D4538/20
Title	Lunatic Asylum Committee minute books
Date	1862-1928
Level	Series
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Derby Borough Council
Administrative History	An asylum was built at Rowditch for the Borough and opened in 1888. It later became known as the Borough Mental Hospital and then as Kingsway Hospital. Before 1888 it had been the policy of the Borough to use the County Asylum at Mickleover, and, for a few years, to use the Asylum at Leicester.
Related Material	See D1658 for records of the County Asylum. See also D4538/38/1 for minutes of the Mental Deficiency Committee.

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Derby; Kingsway Hospital; 1888-; mental health hospital, former Victorian lunatic asylum

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