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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D4538/20
TitleLunatic Asylum Committee minute books
Date1862-1928
LevelSeries
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorDerby Borough Council
Administrative HistoryAn 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 MaterialSee 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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