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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | Q/AL |
| Title | Quarter Sessions (Administration): 'Lunacy' records (index available to download) |
| Date | 1828-1937 |
| Description | Q/AL lunacy records (unlisted, apart from this summary):
Summary notes on the Lunacy records (unlisted) of the Clerk of the Peace. The records themselves are split into the following sections (also unlisted):
Overseers returns: returns of the power of numbers and condition of idiots and lunatics [1828, 1831, 1836];
An index to this series is available to download from the link on this page. Derbyshire Record Office is grateful to Sylvia Wright for supplying this resource.
Lunacy Returns. Returns of pauper lunatics from Poor Law Unions (5 boxes) [1853-1869; 1871-1873; 1878-1882; 1884-1889, 1890-1899, 1901-1902, 1904-1906, 1907-1910];
County Asylum - minutes and correspondence. Manuscript minutes 1844-1868, papers, correspondence 1844-1868;
County Asylum (The Pastures). Reports, from 1853, pr. papers on finance; bill of quantities; engraving of Asylum. [c1853];
Contracts register [1904-1926];
Lists of Patients. Annual lists of patients at Mickleover Asylum. [1892-1909];
Wye House (Private Asylum). Testimonials to Thomas Dickson, pr.1855; alterations - plans and correspondence, 1857 1880; returns of lunatics, 1885-1889, notices of admission 1860's... 1937. [1855-1937];
Thornhill Projected Asylum. Plans, sale, catalogue, terrier, 1918-1921; correspondence, early 20th cent |
| Extent | 12 boxes |
| Level | SubFonds |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Archive Creator | Derbyshire County Quarter Sessions |
| Related Material | For Asylum Minutes. 1896-1926 Printed minutes of the County Asylum Visiting Committee - 1896-1914 (4 vols); Asylum Building Committee minutes, 1912-15; see D919/C/1/15 |
| Term | Lunacy |
| Inquisitions of lunacy |
| Mental health |
| Learning disabilities |
| Mental health services |
| Document | Q AL 13 Index of Overseers of Lunacy Returns 1828, 1831, 1836 Text.pdf |
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