Napsbury Mental Hospital, St Albans

Procedure book, reports from Pathological Department, 1930s, investigation into typhoid carriers in the Hospital, 1934, study of 16 cases of cerebral tumour, 1935; articles and cuttings re psychiatry and neurology, 1927-1956.

Arranged as follows: A. Typescript volumes: procedures book, reports, studies into typhoid carriers and cerebral tumour. B. Articles, reprints, and cuttings.

Acc.256 received on 26/02/1987, acc.422 in Sep 1990

Records of the hospital 1898-1974 now in London Metropolitan Archives (includes materials formerly held by Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies), with additional material in the records of the Middlesex County Council (MCC) Mental Hospitals Committee and predecessor bodies, 1898-1945 and the MCC Mental Health Committee. Admission and discharge registers during its use as a military hospital 1915-1918 are in The National Archives, class MH106.

Catalogued by Shirley Dixon, May 1992; catalogue updated by Lesley Hall, Nov 2006

Founded in 1905 as Napsbury Asylum, under Middlesex County Council. Became Napsbury Mental Hospital after the end of the First World War.

These items were received from Penny Shapland, Librarian of the Hospital, the volumes (Section A) in February 1987 and the cuttings collection (Section B) in September 1990.

Hard-copy catalogue available in the Wellcome Library