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Title: K C M H
Post by: bearkat on Tuesday 18 October 16 15:03 BST (UK)
Looking at the Creed Register for the Medway Union for 1900-1930 I can see several mentions of K C M H next to the date of discharge.

Does anyone have an idea of what it stands for?  I thought possibly a hospital but I can't find one that matches.
Title: Re: K C M H
Post by: Milliepede on Tuesday 18 October 16 15:07 BST (UK)
Mental Hospital?

Just out of interest what is a Creed Register?
Title: Re: K C M H
Post by: StevieSteve on Tuesday 18 October 16 15:07 BST (UK)
Kent County Mental Hospital in Maidstone?
Title: Re: K C M H
Post by: Milliepede on Tuesday 18 October 16 15:10 BST (UK)
The initials do come up if you google them + Kent.  One of the examples may confirm what it stands for.

Added - yes that looks to be it wot Stevie said.
Title: Re: K C M H
Post by: Vimto on Tuesday 18 October 16 15:12 BST (UK)
The Creed Register recorded the religious beliefs of inmates.
Title: Re: K C M H
Post by: Milliepede on Tuesday 18 October 16 15:14 BST (UK)
Thanks Vimto  :)
Title: Re: K C M H
Post by: bearkat on Tuesday 18 October 16 15:19 BST (UK)
So, it's looks like it's the Kent County Mental Hospital, Chartham

Why would people from Medway be sent to Chartham not Maidstone?
Title: Re: K C M H
Post by: Milliepede on Tuesday 18 October 16 15:27 BST (UK)
It was Maidstone on the example I found.  Marriage record, bride was a nurse residence Kent County Mental Hospital Maidstone.

Title: Re: K C M H
Post by: KGarrad on Tuesday 18 October 16 15:47 BST (UK)
That would be Oakdale Hospital, Barming Heath, Maidstone.
My aunt was Matron there in the 1960s.
Title: Re: K C M H
Post by: bearkat on Tuesday 18 October 16 16:18 BST (UK)
I think the hospital at Barming,Maidstone was the Kent County Lunatic Asylum and later became Oakwood Hospital
Title: Re: K C M H
Post by: bearkat on Tuesday 18 October 16 17:43 BST (UK)
Quote from: Milliepede on Tuesday 18 October 16 15:27 BST (UK)
It was Maidstone on the example I found. 

So it could have been Maidstone of Chartham??
Title: Re: K C M H
Post by: Heinous on Friday 23 April 21 22:22 BST (UK)
The Asylum at Barming Heath was known as the Kent County Asylum, later Kent County Asylum No 1 (when No 2 was opened at Chartham for East Kent).With the NHS in 1948, it became Oakwood Hospital. I don't think it was ever formally known as Kent County Mental Hospital, though it's possible that it was referred to in that way internally.
Medway patients would normally have been admitted there, not to Chartham (Later St Augustines), which served Ashford, Dover, Folkestone and Thanet. Canterbury patients would have gone to the Canterbury asylum (later St Martin's Hospital), which became an annexe of St Augustine's in 1948 taking mostly elderly patients until St Augustine's closed in the 1990s.
Title: Re: K C M H
Post by: petmas on Saturday 24 April 21 11:05 BST (UK)
Photos & info on http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=5279.0 (http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=5279.0)  The new Maidstone Hospital was built on part of the site