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Title: Asylum coding by names
Post by: beatrice834 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.

Title: Re: Asylum coding by names
Post by: JenB 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/
Title: Re: Asylum coding by names
Post by: Girl Guide on Monday 09 September 19 10:56 BST (UK)
It means this:-

 for institutions only: Officer, Visitor, Servant, Patient, Inmate
Title: Re: Asylum coding by names
Post by: beatrice834 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!