VPRS 7425 Nominal Register of Patients

This volume is a Nominal Register of Patients at the Kew Asylum and Children's Cottages. The Nominal Register was created to record the names of all patients on the books of the Asylum. Both patients in residence and those out on trial leave were included.Details recorded are:date of admission,name of patient,date of discharge/transfer/death.Date RangeThe register appears to have been commenced by 1887 because there are no patients listed who have been discharged, died or transferred before this date. No details where entered in the register beyond 1906. Though the register was not begun till 1887 it covered patients "on the books" at that time, some of whom were first admitted in 1871.