VPRS 8239 Boarded Out Register

Under s.95 of the Lunacy Act 1890 (No.1113), the Governor-in-Council could make regulations for the boarding out of patients. The regulations stated that the same person could not receive both male and female patients and prescribed other matters such as the class of person to whom patients might be boarded out; the type of accommodation and the distance from the hospital; the permissible occupations of the patient; the hours to be kept by the patient; the degree of liberty of a patient whilst boarded out and the dietary requirements to be provided for the patient.The Register of Boarded Out Patients records the details of such patients in chronological order by date of discharge. They record the name of the patient; admission details, date of boarding out and date of return or death. The name and address of the people or organisation to whom the patient had been boarded out was recorded in a remarks column. From 1922 this column is headed `to whom boarded out' and in unit 2 of the series these details are fewer and the column is simply titled Guardian.Initially the admission details included the admission number and date of admission, but later only the date of admission was recorded. Patients were numbered in order of date boarded out, with males and females having separate sequences of numbers. The numbers do not correspond to any others used in the records of Sunbury Asylum. On two occasions, 28 March 1924 and 4 January 1926, the Register was rewritten to include only those patients still boarded out.

根据1890年《精神错乱法》（Lunacy Act 1890，第1113号）第95条，总督会同行政会议（Governor-in-Council）可制定关于精神病患者寄养安置的相关规章。上述规章明确规定，同一主体不得同时接收男性与女性患者，并对多项其他事宜作出规范：包括可接收寄养患者的人员类别、寄养住所的类型及与精神病院的距离、患者被允许从事的职业、患者需遵守的作息时长、寄养期间患者享有的自由程度，以及需为患者提供的膳食要求。《寄养患者登记册》（Register of Boarded Out Patients）按患者出院日期的时间顺序记录此类寄养患者的详细信息，内容涵盖患者姓名、入院详情、寄养安置日期以及返回医院或身故的日期。寄养接收方的个人或机构名称与地址会记录在备注栏中：自1922年起，该备注栏的标题为"寄养接收方"；而在该档案系列的第2单元中，此类记录信息较为简略，备注栏仅标注为"监护人"。最初的入院详情包含入院编号与入院日期，但后续仅记录入院日期。患者按寄养安置日期的先后顺序编号，男性与女性患者分别使用独立的编号序列，此类编号与桑伯里精神病院（Sunbury Asylum）其他档案中使用的编号均无对应关系。该登记册曾于1924年3月28日与1926年1月4日两次重新编制，仅保留仍处于寄养状态的患者信息。