Parish Books

Volumes comprise lists of rate-aided patients arranged alphabetically by the parish chargeable for their board. Information contained includes patient name, number, and date of admission, discharge and death. Any changes are also recorded, e.g. if the responsibility for payment of board is changed from one parish to another. Information relates to patients from local parishes (Interns) and those from parishes outside the region (Externs). Names of patients included are those still resident when volumes were created, as a result volumes contain names of patients admitted as early as 1843. Covering dates of volumes relate to the date the volume was created not the patient admission date.

1881-1925

3 volumes

Pauper or rate-aided patients were those who could not afford to pay for their board and were maintained by their local parish or, after 1929, their local authority.

Enquiries for reproduction for commercial purposes should be directed to the Archivist, Dumfries and Galloway Archives and Local Studies

The papers are available at Dumfries and Galloway Archives subject to conditions of UK Data Protection Act 1998, Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and NHS Records Management Code of Practice 2012. Subject to these restrictions, this material is being digitised by the University of Glasgow as part of a Wellcome Trust funded project. Material that is digitised will be accessed freely online through the Wellcome Library catalogue.