St Bernards Hospital

[shellyp123]

Hi,

I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction, My Grandmother passed away in St Bernards Hospital in 1965, I am trying to do some research on this.

Could anyone possibly point me in the right direction.

Thank you 

[jorose]

Do you have her death certificate?

Records for hospitals are often hard to get hold of - some don't survive, anything from 1965 is likely still quite locked down because of privacy.

This St Bernard's hospital? (Unfortuntely it doesn't look like any patient records from 1965 have made it to the archives; they may still be with the NHS trust - if surviving).
https://search.lma.gov.uk/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/LMA_OPAC/web_detail/REFD+H11~2FHLL?SESSIONSEARCH

[maddys52]

Welcome to RootsChat.

I hope there was some improvement after this description in 1954:

".. visit some of these institutions. I haven't any doubt that being Members of Parliament you will come out again. They should go to St. Bernard's Hospital [at Southall, Middlesex].
  'Heavy iron gates clang after you. You walk up stone stairs, worn with deep indentations by feet over 140 years, and through miles of corridors. "At every step you are depressed. That anybody suffering from mental illness recovers there borders on the miraculous.' "

Publication: The Daily Telegraph
Date: Saturday,  Feb. 20, 1954

[CaroleW]

Welcome to Rootschat

Can you clarify what you mean by “do some research on this”  so we can try & help you?

If you are asking if it’s possible to obtain your grandmothers hospital records - Jorose has answered that in her reply above.

If it's something else - please let us know.  Buying a copy of your grandmothers death cert will give her cause of death & you can order online using the link below.

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/Login.asp