PATIENTS' RECORDS: DISCHARGE AND DEATH REGISTERS

H64/B/05/001-004: gives date of removal, discharge or death, date of last admission, patient's name, sex, whether pauper or private, form of discharge (whether recovered, relieved or 'not improved'), where removed to, form of removal (whether relieved or 'not improved'), if death - the cause and age at death, and any observations.;Under Rules of the Commissioners in Lunacy 29 March 1890, a separate register was to be kept to divide pauper and private patients (form 6).;In accordance with the Rules of the Commissioners in Lunacy 31 October 1906, number 822: rule 5: 'The Clerk of every asylum, the superintendent of every hospital...shall, within two clear days after the removal, discharge, death or transfer...of any patient...make an entry thereof in the civil register of patients and also in the register of dicharges and transfers and in the register of deaths, according to the form prescribed therein...and in the case of deaths an entry shall be made also in the medical journal by the medical officer'.;Register of discharges and transfers H64/B/05/005: (form 2a) date of discharge or transfer, date of last admission, patient's name and whether private or pauper, where discharged or transferred to, sex, whether direct admission or received as a transfer, whether first attack or not, age on recovery, ages on onset of last and first attacks, duration of last attack, Aetiological factors (reference numbers to schedules of Commissioners in Lunacy only), form of 'mental disorder' on admission (schedule reference only), form of discharge (whether recovered, relieved or 'not improved'), form of transfer (whether relieved or no improved) and any observations;Register of deaths H64/B/05/006: (form 2b) date of death, date of last admission, patient's name and whether private or pauper, sex, age at death, age at first last and first attack of 'mental disorder', duration of last attack from onset and from admission, form of 'mental disorder' on admission and at death, cause of death and contributory factor and any observation