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Offline cooperman

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Hospital Medical Records
« on: Saturday 29 December 07 17:30 GMT (UK) »
My Grt Grandfather died in the Hull City Mental Hospital,Willerby how can I obtain a copy of his hospital records?

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Re: Hospital Medical Records
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 29 December 07 18:30 GMT (UK) »
Hello Cooperman

You don't mention when your gt grandfather died. Hospital records usually have a 100 years confidentiality protection in the same way as census and you may need to show evidence of your relationship to the ex-patient when you collect records.

I don't know about Hull but I obtained Huddersfield's asylum records from Wakefield Archives, there may be some similar authority in the East Riding.

From the Internet I learned that it was known as the Hull Borough Asylum from 1849-1882, then Hull City Mental Asylum and finally closed in 1997 as De La Pole Hospital Willerby Hull HU10 6ED.

http://www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/4_13_TA.htm#Hull


Try Hull's library, local archives or even NHS; they may be able to help. Could Hull University local history dept know anything? The records and archives must be somewhere!!!!

Let me know if you have any success as I am searching for staff records of St Luke's Mental Hospital in Middlesbrough.

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Re: Hospital Medical Records
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 29 December 07 18:35 GMT (UK) »
Amanda,

Many thanks for all the advice here and I will follow up your suggestions.

Happy New Year

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Re: Hospital Medical Records
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 29 December 07 19:07 GMT (UK) »
The records of the de la Pole Hospital and its predecessors are at Hull City Archives,
79 Lowgate, Kingston Upon Hull HU1 1HN

www.hullcc.gov.uk/portal/page?_pageid=221,52893&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

The Hospital Records Database (HOSPREC) is the place to look to find the locations of hospital archives

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/default.asp

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Re: Hospital Medical Records
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 29 December 07 19:13 GMT (UK) »
Mean_Genie

Many thanks for the info.

Happy New Year

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Re: Hospital Medical Records
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 26 May 09 19:01 BST (UK) »
Hi,
Don't know if this is of interest to you but the De La Pole Hospital still has its own cemetery still at the rear of where the hospital stood, sadly not many Headstones there, the De La Pole Hospital had its own Church  this is still there and is up and running as a Crematorium,
regards John.
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