Convict Guide - published 2006 - Manual / Resource - Page 88
Guide to New South Wales State archives relating to convicts and convict administration
Return of convict invalids and lunatics in
the asylum, 31 Dec 1876
The returns show name, date of admission and
date of death or discharge.
Copies of warrants of admission for criminal
lunatics, 1844–78
Microfilm copy:
Reel 2283,
[4/818.2]
NRS 1060,
[4/8262]
Quantity: 1 volume
The warrants record the prisoner's name, the
gaol in which he was kept, the crime for which
he was imprisoned, and the registered number of
the relevant Colonial Secretary's In-letter.
Health records
Patient identifying Health records are closed to public access for 110
years with the exception of those of Liverpool State Hospital which are
open to public access.
General index to patients admitted, 1848–
1906
NRS 5120,
[6/5336]
Quantity: 1 volume
This volume notes number, name, date of
admission, date of discharge or death, whether
recovered, relieved, not improved, died or
escaped; case book number and folio, and
remarks. Records from 1890 onwards are closed
to Public Access.
Index to admission registers and medical
case books, 1848–90
NRS 5103,
[6/5331]
Quantity: 2 volumes
This volume includes a separate list in admission
number order of criminal patients (c.1848–89),
noting number, name, case book and folio, and
remarks.
Admission register, criminal division,
24 Mar 1848–12 Apr 1900
NRS 5097,
[3/7057]
Quantity: 1 volume
Index to medical case books, males, 1848–
c.1920
NRS 5112,
[6/5334]
Quantity: 1 volume
Medical case books, 1848–1918
Quantity: 44 volumes
Miscellaneous letters, passes and warrants
received re patients admitted, 1848–54,
1860
NRS 5113,
[6/5350-87,
4/8255-58,
3/7055-56]
NRS 5134,
[9/8148]
Quantity: 1 volume
The documents chiefly relate to convicts, and
include various warrants and passes authorising
the admission to the establishment of ticket of
leave holders; and a number of detailed lists of
persons transferred from Tarban Creek Lunatic
Asylum and from Liverpool General Hospital.
State Records Authority of New South Wales
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