VPRS 17924 Discharge Register of Patients [Mayday Hills Mental Hospital]

This series consists of a volume detailing male and female patient discharges from Beechworth Mayday Hills Mental Hospital (VA 2842) during 1974.Within twenty-four hours after the discharge, removal or escape of any patient the clerk of the asylum was to make and sign an entry to record this occurrence in the Discharge Register also known as the Register of Discharges, Removals and Deaths. This was required under the provisions of section 23 of the Lunacy Statute 1867. Subsequent legislation included similar provisions. An entry was also to be made in the Register of Patients and a written notice was to be sent to the Chief Secretary.The format of the Discharge Register was specified in the seventeenth schedule of the 1867 Act and in schedules to subsequent legislation.Details recorded included:- patient name- date of discharge- address of patientFurther research is required to determine if the register was kept before or after 1975 and if the register was created to record particular types of patients, such as voluntary boarders. It is also unclear as to how it relates to VPRS 17924 Discharge Register of Patients.