| Description | This collection is uncatalogued. Please download document below for interim list. Summary:
Index to Male Patients c1888-1965; Index to Female Patients c1888-1962; Patient registers, 1888-1994 (incomplete); Male Case books 1891-1920; Female Case books 1888-1930; Medical Registers 1922-1953;
Registers of Discharges and Transfers 1907-1951; Register of Discharges and Deaths 1888-1906; Death registers 1897-[mid-1960s]; Post Mortem Register 1889-1925;
Daily number of Patients, with names 1954-1963;
Accident Book 1981-1982;
Private Patients accounts 1950-1960;
Gift Fund Account Cash Book 1964-1968;
Register of Defectives 1914-1931;
Register of Mechanical restraint and seclusion 1939-1947;
Staff Service Register, 1890s-1909; Staff Certificates of Service, Oct 1911-Jun 1948; Staff Report books 1888-1970;
Medical Journals 1896-1925;
Maintenance Book 1988-1950;
Daily Average Book 1932-1948;
Annual reports, 1889-1968 (incomplete); and
Service Report on hospital 1975 |
| Administrative History | Derby Borough Asylum, designed by Hull architect Benjamin S. Jacobs., opened in 1888, with 27 female patients returned from the Leicester & Rutland County Asylum.
In 1912, the asylum was formally renamed “Derby Mental Hospital” and, in 1931, an out-patient’s department opened at Derby Royal Infirmary. In 1938, the name of the institution was formally changed to “Kingsway Hospital”. Ten years later, the was incorporated into the newly-formed N.H.S., under the Sheffield Regional Hospitals Board, administered by the Derby Area No.4 Hospital Management Committee. Kingsway’s catchment area increased rapidly, from serving the town of Derby and its surrounds, to incorporating Long Eaton and more rural parts of south-east Derbyshire. The hospital went from 142,700 registered persons in 1947 to 243,840 less than one year later.
By the early 1950’s, voluntary admissions had become the norm at Kingsway, with around 70% of new patients signing themselves into the hospital, and only around 30% of cases being committed by a doctor’s signature.
By the end of 2011, the main Kingsway Hospital was demolished. In October 2014 plans were approved for a 700-home housing estate named “Manor Kingsway”. |
| Custodial History | Records were first deposited by Kingsway Hospital in 2002. Further deposits were received in 2003 and 2019. |