VPRS 18453 Admission Index Cards

This series consists of admission index cards for patients of Plenty Mental/Psychiatric Hospital (VA 5091), and North Eastern Metropolitan Psychiatric Services (NEMPS) (VA 5083). The four-sided index cards recorded details, including: patient name, year of birth (or full birth date), date of admission, type of admission (e.g. "recommended" or "voluntary" or "involuntary", etc.), dates and types of previous admissions, date of discharge or transfer to another institution, trial leave details, references to boarding out, dates of escape and return; address on admission and permanent address, marital status, occupation, religion; whether Australian born, migrant's country of birth, year of arrival in Australia, age on arrival, length of residence in Australia, whether naturalized; last school attended and standard achieved; professional or vocational qualifications, last occupation and whether still employed; name of next of kin, relation to patient, address and occupation.Attached to the inside of most of the four-sided cards is a form M.H. 26 Report of Superintendent as to Physical and Mental Condition of Patient. Patients may have several such forms attached to their card. The older index cards include a registration number in the right hand corner, with an "F" prefix for females and an "M" prefix for males. The more recent cards include a six digit U.R. number. U.R. numbers are allocated to patients as a unique identifier across a range of systems.

本数据集系列涵盖普莱蒂精神/精神病医院（VA 5091）与东北大都会精神卫生服务中心（NEMPS，VA 5083）患者的入院索引卡。该类四面索引卡记录的信息包括：患者姓名、出生年份（或完整出生日期）、入院日期、入院类型（如“推荐入院”“自愿入院”“非自愿入院”等）、既往入院的日期与类型、出院或转至其他机构的日期、试休假详情、寄养照料相关记录、出逃及返回日期；入院时住址与永久住址、婚姻状况、职业、宗教信仰；是否澳大利亚本土出生、移民的出生国家、抵达澳大利亚的年份、抵澳时年龄、在澳居住时长、是否已入籍；就读的最后一所学校及达到的学业水平；职业或专业资格、最后一份职业及是否仍在职；近亲属姓名、与患者的亲属关系、住址及职业。多数四面索引卡的内侧附有M.H. 26《患者身心状况主管医师报告表》，一名患者可附带多份此类表格。较早期的索引卡在右上角标注注册号，女性患者的注册号以“F”为前缀，男性患者则以“M”为前缀；较新的索引卡则带有六位U.R.编号（U.R. number）。U.R.编号作为跨多系统的唯一标识符分配给每位患者。