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Lunacy Patients Admission Registers - Discharge conditions
« on: Saturday 19 June 21 21:22 BST (UK) »
I'm looking at the Lunacy Patients Admission Registers and am not sure about the categories for discharge from asylum. I am clear with recovered and death but what are the other two? can anyone help?

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Wilson in the Lancaster area
Clegg in Todmorden
Adamson in Edinburgh
Miller in Edinburgh
Nunn in Norfolk and Co Durham
Smith in Glasgow
Haig in Peebles/Edinburgh
Also Nelson, Gardener, Garnett, Blair, Coleman, Aaronson and many more as the branches expand!

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Re: Lunacy Patients Admission Registers - Discharge conditions
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 19 June 21 21:41 BST (UK) »
Reld - Released
Leicestershire:Chamberlain, Dakin, Wilkinson, Moss, Cook, Welland, Dobson, Roper,Palfreman, Squires, Hames, Goddard, Topliss, Twells,Bacon.
Northamps:Sykes, Harris, Rice,Knowles.
Rutland:Clements, Dalby, Osbourne, Durance, Smith,Christian, Royce, Richardson,Oakham, Dewey,Newbold,Cox,Chamberlaine,Brow, Cooper, Bloodworth,Clarke
Durham/Yorks:Woodend, Watson,Parker, Dowser
Suffolk/Norfolk:Groom, Coleman, Kemp, Barnard, Alden,Blomfield,Smith,Howes,Knight,Kett,Fryston
Lincolnshire:Clements, Woodend

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Re: Lunacy Patients Admission Registers - Discharge conditions
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 19 June 21 21:42 BST (UK) »
Not Impd = not improved
Leicestershire:Chamberlain, Dakin, Wilkinson, Moss, Cook, Welland, Dobson, Roper,Palfreman, Squires, Hames, Goddard, Topliss, Twells,Bacon.
Northamps:Sykes, Harris, Rice,Knowles.
Rutland:Clements, Dalby, Osbourne, Durance, Smith,Christian, Royce, Richardson,Oakham, Dewey,Newbold,Cox,Chamberlaine,Brow, Cooper, Bloodworth,Clarke
Durham/Yorks:Woodend, Watson,Parker, Dowser
Suffolk/Norfolk:Groom, Coleman, Kemp, Barnard, Alden,Blomfield,Smith,Howes,Knight,Kett,Fryston
Lincolnshire:Clements, Woodend

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Re: Lunacy Patients Admission Registers - Discharge conditions
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 19 June 21 21:49 BST (UK) »
Quote from: iluleah on Saturday 19 June 21 21:41 BST (UK)
Reld - Released

Sorry to disagree, but Reld. = Relieved.

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Re: Lunacy Patients Admission Registers - Discharge conditions
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 19 June 21 21:57 BST (UK) »
Just found info from the New Lunacy Act 1845 -

Recovered
Relieved = recovered from acute illness and can return home or to another hospital
Not improved - I don't understand this one - why would they be discharged?

Wilson in the Lancaster area
Clegg in Todmorden
Adamson in Edinburgh
Miller in Edinburgh
Nunn in Norfolk and Co Durham
Smith in Glasgow
Haig in Peebles/Edinburgh
Also Nelson, Gardener, Garnett, Blair, Coleman, Aaronson and many more as the branches expand!

Census info is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Re: Lunacy Patients Admission Registers - Discharge conditions
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 19 June 21 22:12 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Bookbox on Saturday 19 June 21 21:49 BST (UK)
Quote from: iluleah on Saturday 19 June 21 21:41 BST (UK)
Reld - Released

Sorry to disagree, but Reld. = Relieved.

You are correct


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Not improved - I don't understand this one - why would they be discharged?

Fully written here https://archive.org/details/newlunacyactsvi00lumlgoog/page/n140/mode/2up?view=theater
Leicestershire:Chamberlain, Dakin, Wilkinson, Moss, Cook, Welland, Dobson, Roper,Palfreman, Squires, Hames, Goddard, Topliss, Twells,Bacon.
Northamps:Sykes, Harris, Rice,Knowles.
Rutland:Clements, Dalby, Osbourne, Durance, Smith,Christian, Royce, Richardson,Oakham, Dewey,Newbold,Cox,Chamberlaine,Brow, Cooper, Bloodworth,Clarke
Durham/Yorks:Woodend, Watson,Parker, Dowser
Suffolk/Norfolk:Groom, Coleman, Kemp, Barnard, Alden,Blomfield,Smith,Howes,Knight,Kett,Fryston
Lincolnshire:Clements, Woodend

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Re: Lunacy Patients Admission Registers - Discharge conditions
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 20 June 21 01:37 BST (UK) »
Quote from: northern_rose on Saturday 19 June 21 21:57 BST (UK)
Not improved - I don't understand this one - why would they be discharged?

If it was thought that the asylum could not help further with their condition. People were admitted to asylums for a variety of reasons, not always connected with 'lunacy'. You would need to look at the patient case-books for more information, if any survive for the institution at that date.

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Re: Lunacy Patients Admission Registers - Discharge conditions
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 20 June 21 09:26 BST (UK) »
Discharged not improved is invariably a transfer to another asylum. You may find a further entry in the lunacy registers, usually on the same date.
Bear in mind though that some were transferred to imbecile asylums which are not included.

Quote from: northern_rose on Saturday 19 June 21 21:57 BST (UK)
Relieved = recovered from acute illness and can return home or to another hospital

This is interesting. Certainly many of those discharged "relieved" were also moved to other asylums. The exact meaning of the term seems to have caused some difficulty to modern academic researchers.

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Re: Lunacy Patients Admission Registers - Discharge conditions
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 20 June 21 09:51 BST (UK) »
Quote from: jonw65 on Sunday 20 June 21 09:26 BST (UK)
Bear in mind though that some were transferred to imbecile asylums which are not included.

Emma Banks, admitted to Cane Hill, 30 May 1902
Discharged, relieved, 24 June 1902
She came from the workhouse in Camberwell, register of lunatics shows she was transferred to Caterham on the day of the discharge from CH.
Two images
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-P3N5-MVR3

On the other hand
Elizth Barnett, admitted to Cane Hill, 3 Jan 1905
Discharged relieved 23 March 1906
Camberwell Register of Lunatics, right down the bottom
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3N5-MJ2W

What does it say in the Camberwell records?
Relieved to Go :-\
Husband
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