Sheriff's Warrants

CRI nos. 11505-11664 This volume contains lists of patients transferred from Stirling District Asylum at Larbert, who were moved due to their facilities being requisitioned by the Admiralty for use as a Naval War Hospital. Loose items found in this volume: 1) Ministry of Pensions form authorising the classification of a Service Patient, as from 8 May 1918 2) Excerpt from minute of meeting of Urr Parish Council regarding the discharge of a patient, 8 June 1920 3) Letter from Ministry of Pensions to Medical Superintendent, Crichton Royal Asylum, requesting an answer to previous correspondence, 20 March 1919 4) Ministry of Pensions form authorising the classification of a Service Patient, 13 March 1919 5) Sanction by the General Board of Control for Liberation of a Patient on Trial, 11 June 1923 6) Ministry of Pensions form authorising the classification of a Service Patient as from 25 August 1918 7) Sanction by the General Board of Control for Liberation of a Patient on Trial, 31 December 1922 8) Ministry of Pensions form authorising the classification of a Service Patient as from 6 September 1918 9) Sanction by the General Board of Control for Liberation of a Patient on Trial, 29 April 1919 10) Ministry of Pensions form authorising the classification of a Service Patient as from 19 February 1919 11) Excerpt from minute of meeting of Kirkcudbright Parish Council regarding the discharge of a patient, 9 July 1919

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A new class of patient, the Service Patient, was established during the First World War after an agreement was made with the War Office. Service Patients were admitted at a fixed rate of board into the Third Department of Crichton Royal Institution, with their board being paid by the Ministry of Pensions and later the Department of Health. These patients were Soldiers and Sailors who had served during the First World War and had been admitted to hospital as a result of suffering from mental and nervous disorders caused or aggravated by their period of service. This scheme was later extended to Officers, with the Ministry of Pensions paying a higher fixed rate of board for their admission into the First Department of Crichton Royal Institution. Patients continued to be admitted under this class during the interwar years and during and after the Second World War.

The records of Stirling District Asylum are held by the University of Stirling Archive.

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