VPRS 8252 Nursing Report Books - Female - Mental Hospital

These report books chronologically record patient statistics, admissions, discharges, transfers, escapes and leave, employment, weather, medical treatment, state of behaviour, fire practice and staffing details.Each page forms the record for one day and these volumes were created from 1922 to 1969. However there are no report books for the period 1928 to 1939. From 28 October 1969 through to 1970 sketchy details on the few remaining Mental Hospital patients were recorded in a volume primarily used for reports about Training Centre patients - see also VPRS 8254 Nursing Report Books - Female - Training Centre.In Unit 21, a report of absconding patients is attached and in Unit 22 the receipt of patients from Royal Park is noted.