Garlands Asylum - Bertram M Steele

[sirsimon]

Hello everyone and hope you all are looking forward to Christmas.

Having died in 1971, a distant cousin of mine Bertram Mitford Steele, whom was kept in Garlands Asylum for most of his life, I won't be able to look at his patient records as I have to wait 100 years for it to be opened.

He was born in Brampton 1886 and died in 1971.

However would he have had admission records? According to a book I have, he was committed in his youth, his teenager years.

I would love to know more about him. He was not in the asylum in 1911 and I cannot find him in 1939.

my thanks

[Daisypetal]

Hi,

Such an unusual name, I think I have found him in 1908 in the Crichton Instution in Dumfries Scotland in 1908,

https://www.oldscottish.com/asylum-patients-spiers-stewart.html

STEELE, Bertram Mitford   Crichton Institution   1908


This site might hold more information,

https://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/mental-healthcare/crichton-royal-hospital/


Regards,
Daisy

[Daisypetal]

I found him here,

https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b22663423#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=140&z=0.105%2C0.1433%2C0.7195%2C0.452

No:  9934   
Bertram Mitford STEELE
Date of admission:  29 Aug 1908
Rate of Board:  £80  {1.8.09 reduced to £52}
Cautioners:  Mrs Helen STEELE
Friardgarth? Brampton, Cumbd


and a Sheriff's Warrant, Certificate of Emergency  here,

https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b22653909#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=482&z=-0.3789%2C0.4147%2C1.647%2C1.0346


It looks like his mother might have asked for help 


There seems to be a lot of different info and ways to see it from this site, hopefully you will be able to find some more


Regards,
Daisy

[sirsimon]

my thanks guys

Its sad to see what he went through.

by the way, Would there exist a photograph of him somewhere?

thanks

[Daisypetal]

Hi,

I know that some asylum and hospital records included photographs of the patients. Have you contacted the Wellcome Library to see if they can help?

https://wellcomelibrary.org/using-the-library/services-and-facilities/contact-us/


I think the Dumfries and Galloway Council Archives Catalogue also holds records of the Crichton Royal Institution, you could contact them as well,

http://archives.dumgal.gov.uk/DServe/DServe.exe?dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Index.tcl

Regards,
Daisy

[clearly]

It looks as if he was a paid patient at the Crichton. Possibly after the National Health Service came in, or his mother died, he would be transferred to the Garlands. Some case files in the Garlands series have photos attached but these are pre 1918. I don't know if they continued the photographing in later years.