Printed Acts, Circulars and Instructions

Date:: 1842-1948

Reference:: RET 1/5/5/2/1

Part of:: The Retreat Archive

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The Retreat ArchiveRET
- GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVERET 1
  - FILES, CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERSRET 1/5
    - Subject Files and PapersRET 1/5/5
      - Lunacy Regulation and Administration, including Commissioners in Lunacy (later Board of Control)RET 1/5/5/2
        Printed Acts, Circulars and InstructionsRET 1/5/5/2/1
        Returns relating to Lunatic Asylums. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 3 February 1842 (Returns relate to licensed private asylums)RET 1/5/5/2/1/1
        Recommendation for the filling up of the Register of Cases agreed to at the annual meeting of the Association of Medical Officers of Hospitals for the Insane at the Asylum, Lancaster 2-3 June 1842RET 1/5/5/2/1/2
        Lunacy. Copy of a Letter to the Lord Chancellor from the Commissioners in Lunacy, with reference to their Duties and Practice, under the Act 8 & 9 Vict., c.100RET 1/5/5/2/1/3
        Circular: Request by the Commissioners in Lunacy for statistical information for Parliamentary Return etcRET 1/5/5/2/1/4
        An Act to amend an Act passed in the Ninth Year of Her Majesty, "for the Regulation of the Care and Treatment of Lunatics" CAP. XCVI, 16 & 17 VicRET 1/5/5/2/1/5
        An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws for the Provision and Regulation of Lunatic Asylums for Counties and Boroughs, and for the Maintenance and Care of Pauper Lunatics in England CAP. XCVI, 16 & 17 VicRET 1/5/5/2/1/6
        Circulars, instructions and forms issued by the Commissioners in Lunacy relating to documentation and medical certificates under 1853 Lunacy ActsRET 1/5/5/2/1/7
        Lunatic Asylums and Regulations Acts Amendment Bill [as amended in Committee]RET 1/5/5/2/1/8
        An Act to amend the Lunatic Asylums Act, 1853, and the Acts passed in the Ninth and Seventeenth Years of Her Majesty, for the Regulation of the Care and Treatment of Lunatics CAP. CV, 18 and 19 VictRET 1/5/5/2/1/9
        Letter to Retreat from Lunacy Commissioners relating to absence of system of night watching at RetreatRET 1/5/5/2/1/10
        Report from the Select Committee on Lunatics, together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence and appendix, ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 27 July 1860RET 1/5/5/2/1/11
        An Act to amend the Law relating to Lunatics CAP. CXI, 25 & 26 VicRET 1/5/5/2/1/12
        An Act to amend the Law relating to Commissions of Lunacy and the Proceedings under the same, and to provide more effectually for the visiting of Lunatics, and for other Purposes CAP. LXXXVI, 25 & 26 VictRET 1/5/5/2/1/13
        Covering letter and instructions relating to Lunacy Acts Amendment Act 1862RET 1/5/5/2/1/14
        Blank specimen Order for the Reception of a Private Patient form under 16 & 17 Vict c 96 and 25 & 26 Vict cIII, printed for the RetreatRET 1/5/5/2/1/15
        An Act to amend the Acts relating to Lunacy in Scotland, and to make further Provision for the Care and Treatment of Lunatics CAP. LI, 29 & 30 VictRET 1/5/5/2/1/16
        Suggestions and Instructions relating in reference to (1) Sites (2) Construction and Arrangement of Buildings (3) Plans of Lunatic Asylums, issued by Commissioners in Lunacy (1870)RET 1/5/5/2/1/17
        Practical suggestions by Robert Rawlinson, Government Engineer, in reference to Sewerage, Drainage and Water Supply of Lunatic Asylums, issued by the Commissioners in Lunacy (1870)RET 1/5/5/2/1/18
        Memorandum notice from the Lunacy Commissioners about notification of removal of address, visits to seaside etc of Chancery patientsRET 1/5/5/2/1/19
        Instructions from the Lunacy Commissioners about all procedures to be followed as to admission of private patientsRET 1/5/5/2/1/20
        Circular on provision of the law as to single insane personsRET 1/5/5/2/1/21
        Letter from Commissioners in Lunacy: will you correct error made by Visiting Commissioner in Retreat Visitors BookRET 1/5/5/2/1/22
        Printed Memorandum on The Lunacy Acts Amendment Bill of 1887RET 1/5/5/2/1/23
        Report of a Committee appointed by the Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland at the Annual Meeting in 1889 to inquire into the question of the systematic training of nurses and attendants on the insane. This Report was adopted at the Annual Meeting in 1890RET 1/5/5/2/1/24
        Report of a Committee appointed by the Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland at the Annual Meeting in 1890 to formulate propositions as to the Care and Treatment of the Insane. This Report was adopted at the Annual Meeting in 1891RET 1/5/5/2/1/25
        Covering letter and blank forms for extracts from the admission register to be returned to the Lunacy Commissioners, covering patients for the year 1892 (RET 1/5/5/2 includes some filled in returns on these forms for years 1876-1884)RET 1/5/5/2/1/26
        Circular from Commissioners: times at which special reports and certificates to be sent to CommissionersRET 1/5/5/2/1/27
        Letter from Commissioners sending forms of abstract of accounts for use under Rule 38RET 1/5/5/2/1/28
        Typescript notice relating to patient missing from LondonRET 1/5/5/2/1/29
        Ministry of Health. Report of the Committee on Administration of Public Mental Hospitals, Cmnd. 1730, (1922)RET 1/5/5/2/1/30
        Board of Control (England and Wales) Committee on Clinical and other Records. Report of the Departmental Committee appointed to enquire into the Clinical and other Records kept in institutions for the Insane (1925), with covering letterRET 1/5/5/2/1/31
        Statutory Rules and Orders 1930, No. 1083, Lunacy and Mental Treatment, EnglandRET 1/5/5/2/1/32
        The Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts, 1890 to 1930 and the Mental Treatment Rules, 1930. List of Books, Records and Forms required on and after 1st January 1931 by Mental Hospitals, Licensed Houses, Nursing Homes and Other Establishments for the Reception of Persons of Unsound Mind, or of Persons Requiring Treatment for Mental IllnessRET 1/5/5/2/1/33
        Board of Control. Memorandum on Occupational Therapy for Mental Patients (1933)RET 1/5/5/2/1/34
        Ministry of Health. Nurses Salaries. Report of the Mental Nurses Sub-Committee. Cmnd. 6542 (1944)RET 1/5/5/2/1/35
        Ministry of Health. Ministry of Education. Nursing Services Inter-Departmental Committee. Report of Sub-Committee on Mental Nursing and the Nursing of the Mentally Defective (HMSO 1945)RET 1/5/5/2/1/36
        Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts 1890-1930. Abridged List of Forms and Records required by local health authorities, mental hospitals... under the provisions of the Mental Treatment Rules 1948 and National Health Service (Emergency Mental Treatment Regulations) 1948RET 1/5/5/2/1/37
        Coding Schedules issued by the Board of Control, 1931-1933. These comprise a Schedule of Mental Illness, 1931, a Schedule of Causes of Mental Illness (‘Aetiological Factors’), 1931 and a Schedule of Occupations, 1933.RET 1/5/5/2/1/38

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Note that there are other circulars from the Commissioners in Lunacy in the bundles in RET 1/5/5/2. The items here comprise the following items, in chronological order

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1842-1948

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3 files

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Open and available at the Borthwick Institute for Archives. This material is being digitised by the Borthwick Institute for Archives as part of a Wellcome Trust funded project. Material that is digitised will be accessed freely online through the Wellcome Library catalogue.

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