VPRS 18807 Numerical Register of Patients and Staff

This series comprises a single volume which provides a daily statistical report of the numbers of patients in residence, and the numbers of resident staff on duty, at the Willsmere Unit and Surgical Unit of Kew Mental Hospital (VA 2840). The Willsmere Unit consisted of Wards G1, G3, and G4 which had been proclaimed as wards of a psychiatric hospital by the Minister of Health in the Government Gazette in January 1982 (Wards G3 and G4) and August 1983 (Ward G1). Psychiatric hospitals received short-term acute patients. The Surgical Unit at Kew Mental Hospital was set up in 1973 to treat all Victorian mental and psychiatric patients. It was closed on the 17 November 1986. It appears that the purpose of the information in this volume was to provide a daily record of patient and staff numbers to assist with compiling longer term reports. This Register was donated to the Kew Historical Society by the family of Dr. Fred Stamp, the last superintendent of the Hospital from 1981-1988, following his death. The Register was then transferred to PROV from the Kew Historical Society.