Rainhill County Mental Hospital

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Hi All,
I'm trying to locate information about someone who died here in 1972. I've been in touch with Liverpool Archives and they've found one reference to her, on a medical register detailing her admission in 1931, but aside from that, nothing. Does anyone have any experience with obtaining medical records of old Rainhill patients? If they aren't in Liverpool Archives have they been destroyed or is there a chance they might be archived elsewhere?
With Thanks

[CaroleW]

Have you already seen this link

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=629#jump2record

[barryd]

Would I be right in saying that a hospital in-patient would not be included on the 1939 Register. I have a very distant relative born in Ceylon, attending a Public School in England, killed while serving in the RAF who is on the 1939 Register as a boarder at the school. 

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Would I be right in saying that a hospital in-patient would not be included on the 1939 Register. I have a very distant relative born in Ceylon, attending a Public School in England, killed while serving in the RAF who is on the 1939 Register as a boarder at the school.

Thanks for your reply. I found her on the 1939 Register at the institution. I think there was a special code to designate inmates/patients from staff.