Canterbury Mental Hospital (St Martins)

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   Does anyone know where the records of this hospital might be? It seems that at some point they were in the East Kent Archive, so I thought they would be at Maidstone, but I cannot find them in their catalogue.
    A cousin of my grandfather was there in 1911 and 1939. The 1939 record is a bit odd, as she is listed with 2 of her daughters, aged 30ish, and an older unmarried female relative of her husband!

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According to the Hospital Records Database the records are at East Kent Archives

East Kent Archives Centre


Record type
Date range

Administrative
1903 - 1982

   General
1903 - 1982

   Finance
1903 - 1975

   Estates
1906 - 1966

   Admission & Discharge
1903 - 1960

   Staff
1903 - 1940

Clinical & Patients
1903 - 1975

I then found that

All records formerly held at East Kent Archives Centre have been transferred to the Kent History and Library Centre

I’d contact the above centre and ask them.

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  Thanks, I have emailed them. I just wish I could find things in the catalogue! The records from that date may not be public anyway.