VPRS 8251 Nursing Report Books - Male - Mental Hospital

Variously known as Head Attendant's or Principal Nurse's Daily Report books, these report books document patient statistics, admissions, discharges, transfers, escapes and leave, employment, weather, medical treatment, state of behaviour, fire practice and staffing details.Each page forms a daily record. The extant records are from 1922 to 1925 and from 1950 to 19 December 1968. From this date information about the Training Centre is included on the same page as that for the Mental Hospital. This continued until the end of the volume and finished on 11 March 1969. From 12 March 1969 to 31December 1969, the latter half of a Training Centre volume (VPRS 8255) is used to record Mental Hospital details. There are no further Mental Hospital entries after December 1969. This is consistent with the official closing of the Mental Hospital in 1970.