lunatic asylum registers

[*sara*]

Hi, i wonder if anyone can help.  i spent a good few hours searching through asylum registers at TNA and have found a possible for my ancestor.  I have two queries:

1.  does anyone know what these column heading means? 
the first one i think is recovered, but the next two, are they released and improved?  this is just my guess??




2.  on the second photo, in the middle is the name of an asylum but it is smudged, any ideas what it says?    ( next to the number 16!)


thanx
sara

[casalguidi]

Hi Sara

The answer to the first part of your question:

The admission register records whether, at discharge, patients had 'recovered', were 'relieved', had 'not improved' or had died.

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=539549

Casalguidi

[*sara*]

thanks for that, an interesting read, it gives quite a bit of info and those columns,

thanx,
sara

[Josephine]

Sara,

Could the name of the asylum be Croydon?

Regards,
Josephine

[*sara*]

i think one of them is croyden but i need the one two down from there

thanks

[willow154]

Hi Sara,
It's certainly not easy to decipher - might be an abbreviation, or just bad spelling!
The following link might help - it's a list of asylums:
www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/4_13_ta.htm#5
You might find it interesting anyway, Sara.
I'll look through the list, too, but I thought two pairs of eyes (or more) might be better than one.
Might be S something
Good luck.
Kind regards,
Paulene

[willow154]

Sarah,
 Can you tell me if the link is coming up, please - we've just got a new internet server today and it won't come up on mine. I don't know if it's my server, or I've got the link wrong.
Thanks,
 Paulene

[casalguidi]

Hi Paulene

It's coming up for me now but the page wouldn't load the other day when I looked so perhaps it's their end

Casalguidi

[mc8]

I think its abrreviated (as in Oxford and glamorgan below it)
starts with an s and perhaps ends with one too, with maybe a th in the middle...


from Paulines list-storthes hall?