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Offline beatrice834

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Asylum coding by names
« on: Monday 09 September 19 10:46 BST (UK) »
Hi, I am looking at the 1939 Registration schedule for Cane Hill Asylum in Coulsdon, Surrey, for a family member and see at the top of one column the letters O, V, S, P, I - patients are  given one of these letters by their names.

Can anyone tell me what the letters stand for, please?

Many thanks.

Minta, Wadeson (Lincs) Leeson, Staniforth (Leics) Wain (Lincs)

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Re: Asylum coding by names
« Reply #1 on: Monday 09 September 19 10:56 BST (UK) »
Institutions only – Officer, Visitor, Servant, Patient, Inmate
see section 3.3 here https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/1939-register/
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Re: Asylum coding by names
« Reply #2 on: Monday 09 September 19 10:56 BST (UK) »
It means this:-

 for institutions only: Officer, Visitor, Servant, Patient, Inmate
Ashford: Somerset, London
England: Devon, London, New Zealand
Holdway: Wiltshire
Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
Windo - Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire

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Re: Asylum coding by names
« Reply #3 on: Monday 09 September 19 11:10 BST (UK) »
Many thanks - seems obvious now you have both explained it but I didn't work it out!
Minta, Wadeson (Lincs) Leeson, Staniforth (Leics) Wain (Lincs)