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HEALTH - Mental Health :
1946   WAAF: Women Medical Officers; mental disorders, medical administration report   AIR 49/396
NURSING AND MIDWIFERY - TYPES OF NURSE : Mental Institution
1955-1961   Wales: hospital survey of nurses in mental health service   BD 18/1688
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE - General :
1994   Guardianship under the Mental Health Act (1983)   BN 35/771994
HEALTH - Mental Health :
1883   As to payment of seaman's Savings Bank deposits standing in wife's name towards cost of her maintenance in an asylum   BT 15/21/F1862/83
1932   Gibraltar: Mr Golding appointed receiver upon instructions of judge in lunacy to deal with affairs of Lady Allchin   CO 91/494/3
1935   Mentally defective females in Bechuanaland   DO 35/485/11
1928-1932   Research on physiological changes in mental patients and especially on nervous disorders and the female sex cycle by Mrs F C Golia, S Antonovitch and Mrs M A B Brazier, London: reports and correspondence   FD 1/1415
1941-1942   Proposed research on the ability to withstand stress by both genders; ATS and AA personnel   FD 1/6446
FINANCE AND PROPERTY - General :
1965   Mrs F M Phillips: correspondence concerning receipt of bequest for research into mental health   FD 9/1845
1968   Miss M Holliday: correspondence receipt of bequest for research into mental health   FD 9/1855
HEALTH - Mental Health :
1907   Chief Clerk's Department: Mrs G Walker, inmate of Gloucester Lunatic Asylum   FO 366/1142/17845
1830-1949   Egypt: Cairo Consular Court Records: individuals in cases named: see list   FO 841
1928   Egypt: Port Said: lunacy/divorce/civil cases   FO 846/80
1910   Sterilisation of the mentally degenerate   HO 144/1098/197900
1883-1891   Criminal lunatic Lucille Dudley, conditionally discharged. Later arrested in USA and acquitted as insane. Discharged on condition she was received in English asylum. Discharged from Broadmoor on application of Salvation Army. (later particulars HO 144/567/A62310)   HO 144/124/A32014
1898-1899   Continuation of allowance to wife made before becoming a criminal lunatic   HO 144/273/A60054
1897   Disposal of property of a lunatic (Mrs E Hopper) in Russia   HO 144/413/B24918
1898   Lunacy: Mary Walsh: repatriation from Belgium to Ireland   HO 144/423/B26332
1890   Mary Allison: transfer to a County Asylum (North London Sessions). Proposed inclusion in future amendment to Criminal Lunatic Act   HO 144/478/X28924
1896   Committal of a Civil Case lunatic to an asylum (Mrs Maria Annie Davies). High Court Justice, Queen's Bench   HO 144/498/X44695
1886-1903   Emma Mary Buckingham: murder charge: insane on arraignment   HO 144/529/A44266
1896-1903   Case of Lucille Dudley continued from A32014: payment to Salvation Army, who later asked to be relieved of responsibility   HO 144/567/A62310
1902-1903   Female patient admitted to Broadmoor with 5 month old baby: conditionally discharged after 4 months   HO 144/579/A63301
1903   Mrs Pyne Hamilton: criminal lunatic: returned to private asylum direct from prison before trial   HO 144/710/108763
1903-1907   Conditional discharge of criminal lunatics whose mental health may be affected by further pregnancies   HO 144/728/112652
1903-1907   Conditional discharge of criminal lunatics whose mental health may be affected by further pregnancies   HO 144/728/112652
1904-1908   Florence Hood: King's Pleasure lunatic   HO 144/746/115963
1881   Licence granted to women on medical grounds as weak-minded for removal to workhouse   HO 144/78/A4145
1907   Elizabeth Anne Breeze: murder: insane on arraignment   HO 144/860/154533
1882-1883   Criminal lunatic discharged after giving birth to child   HO 144/94/A13424
1893-1899   Emily Harriet Wilson: murder, guilty but insane. Conditional discharge   HO 144/X42157
1941-1949   Annie (Tauba) Rubel: stateless person interned under the Prerogative; committed suicide during internment; disposal of property   HO 214/28
1933-1934   Eileen Clancy (convicted for begging): not responsible for her actions at the time of the offence and later certified insane: free pardon granted   HO 45/15890/667344
1848   Male servant carries off and marries rich female lunatic from house of Mr J Seed of Burgh Hall, Chorley, Lancashire   HO 45/2221
1848   Irish lady named Larking in French asylum at Calvados   HO 45/2384
1851-1857   British woman married to a French man became insane: when French government applied for her reception into England, it was suggested that she be treated as French   HO 45/3964
1858   British lunatic in Belgian asylum: application for maintenance (past and future); she was brought to England instead   HO 45/6618
1864-1865   Roman Catholic nun illegally removed while insane to Belgium by other nuns, who acted in good faith: no proceedings (L.O.O.99)   HO 45/7655
1870   Removal of child's remains in case of scarlet fever: licence granted for sanity of mother   HO 45/8332
1879-1880   Not advisable to form a separate class of female weak-minded prisoners   HO 45/9588/89824
1904-1933   Supreme Court of Judicature: Management and Administrative Department: Orders of Masters of Lunacy: includes women: see list   J 79/1-615
DIVORCE - General :
1958-1962   Mental Health Bill: amendment to Matrimonial Causes Rules   J 86/439
HEALTH - Mental Health :
1958-1962   Mental Health Bill: amendment to Matrimonial Causes Rules   J 86/439
1958-1962   Mental Health Bill: amendment to Matrimonial Causes Rules   J 86/439
1939-1940   Principal Probate Registry: lunacy cases: new forms of order for alimony and maintenance   J 86/87
NURSING AND MIDWIFERY - TYPES OF NURSE : Mental Institution
1954-1955   Public relations: publicity of nursing recruitment survey into recruitment for mental health nursing   LAB 12/825
HEALTH - Mental Health :
1950   Re Florence Green, a mental defective. Case at Birmingham Assizes in which A Tomkinson pleas guilty to an offence against Green. Proposed examination of Green   LCO 2/3655
1948   Maintenance Orders in Lunacy Divorce Cases   LCO 2/3675
1955   Marriage of mental defectives: proposed amendment of the Mental Deficiency Act 1913   LCO 2/5707
1869   Reports relating to Mrs Hoffman, a lunatic, in possession of a gun   MEPO 2/160B
1936   Inclusion of abscondees from Mental Homes in the list of missing girls and women under 26 years of age   MEPO 2/5097
1924   Attempted murder of her two children and attempted suicide by Lilian Maud Chamberlain as Aster Place SE on 11 January 1924   MEPO 3/1601
1924   Murder of her children Catherine aged 7 and Margaret aged 2½ and suicide by Margaret Ann Davey on 23 February 1924   MEPO 3/1602
1941-1942   Murder of Margarete Salomon Brann by Irene Louise Valeska Coffee at Castellain Rd, W9 between 11 and 18 Oct 1941 (suicide pact)   MEPO 3/2196
1941-1942   Murder of Arthur Davy Jennings and suicide by Jeannie Marti at Eton Rd, Hampstead on 17 Dec 1941   MEPO 3/2204
1942   Murder of Patricia Ann Ayres (aged 4) and attempted suicide by Louisa Elizabeth Ayres (mother) by drowning in the River Lea, Enfield on 18 Feb 1942   MEPO 3/2209
1920   Murder of Maud Alice Amelia Jeffrey by Maud Elizabeth Jeffrey (mother) and her attempted suicide on 24 Aug 1920   MEPO 3/282
1949   Murder of Peter John Read at Hanworth, Middlesex on 13 July by his mother who committed suicide   MEPO 3/3136
1949   Murder of Marie Mary Murray (16 years) at Sidcup, Kent on 12 August by her mother Gladys Matilda Murray, who committed suicide   MEPO 3/3138
1927-1928   Francis Revy alias Lynch alias Hynes who posed as the 'Rev Francis Revy' to obtain financial benefit from one Matilda Elizabeth Penney, a lunatic   MEPO 3/437
1934-1935   Attempted suicide of Wilhelm and Marie Barthel, afterwards certified: Official Solicitor appointed Receiver   MEPO 3/722
1933-1938   Suspected attempted suicide, alleged to be attempted murder: Mrs Gertrude Brown   MEPO 3/723
1938   Father's complaint of Press leakage about daughter's suicide: Coroner's observations   MEPO 3/743
1933   Alice Kimberlin: murder of her daughter Patricia, and attempted suicide   MEPO 3/819
1936   Hilda Queree: murder of David Edward Queree, aged 4 months, and attempted suicide (capital sentence commuted to penal servitude for life)   MEPO 3/827
1935-1938   Suicide of Matilde Wurm and Dr Dora Fabian, political refugees from Germany, at Great Ormond Street   MEPO 3/871
1935-1939   Admission to mental hospitals of women suffering from psychosis associated with pregnancy or child bearing   MH 137/390
1925-1935+   see references to sterilisation in mental homes under Abortion   MH 51
1932-1933   Sterilisation: Circular 779, from the Committee, sent to local authorities, and correspondence relating to mental defectives known to have had children   MH 51/209
1933   Sterilisation: returns to circular 779 submitted by the Kent County Council, relating to mental defectives known to have had children   MH 51/211
1846   Lunacy Commissioners: report on the case of Margaret Walsh, a pauper in the Workhouse of St George the Martyr, Southwark, Surrey   MH 51/28
1932-1936   Lunacy Commissioners: illegal detention of Miss A M Woolmington at Oak Lodge, Woodsland Road, Hassocks, Sussex, and others at various addresses   MH 51/339
1956-1957   Lunacy Commissioners: Assistant nurse A E Hultum: misconduct with female patient   MH 51/344
1847   Lunacy Commissioners: special report on Martha Elizabeth Rhodes, a patient in York House, Battersea, London. No 43   MH 51/36
1937-1959   Lunacy Commissioners: protection of defectives from acts of sexual immorality; procuration   MH 51/412-413
1938-1958   Arrangements for after-care of baby of mental defective admitted to Institutions in a state of pregnancy   MH 51/438
1942-1953   Marriage of defectives: revision of Board's policy and procedure   MH 51/439
1942-1960   Mental defectives: question of males being employed in the custody of female patients   MH 51/495
1860-1963   Report relating to the property of Sophia Pauline Jacobs, lunatic patient in licensed house, Wyke House, Isleworth, Middlesex. No 7588   MH 51/50
1949-1954   Mental defectives: liability to contribute towards maintenance of illegitimate child   MH 51/500
1952-1958   Mental defectives: arrangements for care of illegitimate children born to certified defectives   MH 51/501
1951   Mental defectives: improper certification of difficult women and girls   MH 51/503
1863-1878   Lunacy Commissioners: report relating to the case of Louisa Fischer, and her subsequent discharge. No 2997   MH 51/52
1863-1865   Report relating to the property of Mary Weston Slade, a pauper lunatic in the Dorset County Asylum. No 7539   MH 51/54
1934-1939   Sterilisation: Committee for research into mental disorder   MH 51/548
1934   Sterilisation: investigation into causes of mental disorder   MH 51/552
1935-1954   Sterilisation: questions of legality if patients resident in mental hospitals are sterilised   MH 51/561
1863   Enquiry into justification for detaining a criminal patient, Helen Englefield, in Northumberland Asylum. No 7722   MH 51/57
1863-1964   Report relating to the case of Mary Ann Ford and the practice of committing insane persons and idiots to gaols. No 7679   MH 51/58
1865-1889   Lunacy Commissioners: correspondence and papers relating to the case of Mary Catherine Whittington, a private patient. No.1026/2963   MH 51/62
1877-1880   Lunacy Commissioners: correspondence and papers relating to the case of Anne Catherine Savory, a private patient. No 2978   MH 51/67
1931   Sterilisation of mental defectives: proposed Bill to legalise sterilisation   MH 51/711
1929-1932   Prevention of mental deficiency and sterilisation of mental defectives   MH 51/712
1930-1953   Wages of mental defectives placed in domestic service on Licence from certified institutions   MH 51/715
1902-1903   Proposed prosecution of Mary Canning of Hove, Sussex for illegal charge of Julia Phillips. No27333   MH 51/73
1918   London Lock Hospital: certification for five female patients   MH 51/732
1908-1909   Alleged illegal charge of Lilian de Lacey White and other patients at Alltofts, Normanton, Yorks. No 3011B6   MH 51/74
1909   Lunacy Commissioners: correspondence relating to Isobella Docker and her sister Kate Crossley, deceased, and dismissal of a reception order for Isobella Docker. No 30113   MH 51/76
1909   Lunacy Commissioners: dismissal of a reception order, presented by Dr C Frazer for Ada Jane Foster. No 30099   MH 51/77
1866-1884   Lunacy Commissioners: carnal knowledge of a female patient   MH 51/780
1890   Blackburn Workhouse: alleged improper conduct of workmen employed therein with female lunatic inmates   MH 51/788
NURSING AND MIDWIFERY - TYPES OF NURSE : Mental Institution
1954-1956   Recruitment to Mental Nursing: Mental Health Exhibition, 1955   MH 55/2193
HEALTH - Mental Health :
1958   Hospital admissions and discharges of women with diagnosis of puerperal psychosis: statistics   MH 55/2328
1921   Mental illness: voluntary boarder: Annie Morris   MH 85/104
1922   Mental illness: voluntary boarder: Helen A Barnes   MH 85/105
1922   Mental illness: voluntary boarder: Constance Cooke   MH 85/106
1849-1960   Lunacy Commissioners and Board of Control Representative Case Papers of Patients: Private and Single Care Patients: individual case files, many named women: see list   MH 85/1-173
1932-1933   Sterilisation of the mentally unfit: memorandum presented to the Board of Control Committee   PCOM 9/123
1952-1955   Edith Horsley: at Nottingham on 26 June 1952 convicted of murder; sentenced to death (commuted); transferred to institution under Mental Deficiency Act 1913 on 4 July 1955   PCOM 9/2072
1917   War Pensions: question of granting pension at 'motherless' child rate to chuildren whose mother is an inmate of lunatic asylum   PIN 15/225
1917-1922   War Pensions: treatment of lunacy: officers, warrant officers and nurses: classification as service patients   PIN 15/900
1917-1921   War Pensions: treatment of lunacy: officers and nurses: maintenance fees payable to institutions   PIN 15/901-902
1935-1945   Widow mentally incapable   PMG 74/196
1815   Hatton Papers. W Kennick transmits a petition on behalf of Mary Smith claiming insanity ff 181-182   PRO 30/45/1
1815   Hatton Papers. Rothes to William Kennick: states that Mary Smith's real name is Chapman and recommends that transportation be changed to imprisonment ff 183-186   PRO 30/45/1
1816   Hatton Papers: Joseph Corbett gives information concerning Mary Austin and Isaac Taylor, both convicted as insane ff 272-273   PRO 30/45/1
1816   Hatton Papers: Corbett acknowledges that Taylor and Austin have been moved to the New Bethlehem Hospital ff 274-275   PRO 30/45/1
1911   Office of Masters of Lunacy. Estates of W H Barnard and Miss A M Carpenter: refund of lunacy percentage and adjustment of accounts (4044/11)   T 1/11283/6727/11
1911   Teachers' Pension Office, Ireland. Miss M Dinigan, teacher discharged from Mullinger District Asylum: payment of certain medical costs out of the pension   T 1/11344/20987/11
1914   Paymaster General's Office. Mrs E Lidbury, formerly teacher, now an inmate of Cheadle Royal Asylum: disablement allowance (16165/14)   T 1/11657/16291/14
1918   Post Office. Misses K & S Reilly, women clerks, Comptroller & Accountant General's Office, Dublin: resignations while mentally deranged; pensions (3888/17; 4239/16)   T 1/12144/10767/18
1919   Official Solicitor's Department, Supreme Court. Estate of Miss M Moore, decd, a lunatic in private care (4002/19)   T 1/12310/16116/19
1920   Ministry of Health. Grant of legal assistance to the Board of Control, summonsed for a writ of habeas corpus in the case of Miss E Coulstock, detained in a home for mental defectives under the Mental Deficiency Act 1913   T 1/12593/23434/20
1920   Lord Chancellor's Office. Payment of a gratuity under s. 3 of the Superannuation Act 1914 to the widow of a second class attendant, Royal Courts of Justice, now confined in a lunatic asylum   T 1/12625/26433/20
1879   Pension awarded to Alelia Flick (insane): paid to her attorney for her benefit   T 1/16455
1920-1922   Maintenance of Marie Edvige de Popowitch, an alien lunatic   T 161/16/S5684
1927-1947   Heading: Pensions: Dependents. 25 files: see list   T 162
1932   Eysh, A A G, Mrs: method of payment when Civil List pensioner in unable to attend to financial details through mental infirmity   T 164/122/12
1933   Arnott, Miss N M G, Admiralty payment from pension of sum to third party when pensioner enters Asylum   T 164/131/8
1909-1936   Oxley, A M: value of free maintenance of wife by asylum authorities is part of means   T 164/157/7
1938   Booth, Miss S A, cancellation of down-grading and dismissal as she was found to be suffering from mental disease; retirement on ill health grounds   T 164/171/17
1938-1939   Prior, S C award Post Office Savings Bank pension: receiver to obtain authority to act on behalf of beneficiary (wife), inmate of mental hospital   T 164/179/8
1939   Gillham, Mrs J (née Bayley) mental ill health retirement   T 164/181/23
1941   Lady Howard, Civil List pensioner certified as of unsound mind: arrangements for payment of pension under Declaration of Trust to sister, not made effective due to death of pensioner   T 164/195/12
1922   Pink, Mrs M and Spink, Miss A, pensioned teachers, inmates of lunatic asylums; any sums paid by relatives for their maintenance need not be considered for purposes of pension increase   T 164/20/13
1923-1924   Dodge, Miss E A, inmate of Hellingly Asylum: further payment of disablement allowance suspended until prescribed deduction has been recovered   T 164/36/29
1923-1924   Adams, R, widow in a mental hospital: gratuity award to be paid to her brother-in-law on his undertaking to apply money for her benefit   T 164/37/1
1923-1924   Haskew, Mrs N E, uncertified teacher: mental ill health retirement; allowance mey be granted owing to permanent incapacity   T 164/41/29
1924   Newell, Miss S T, retired school teacher whose pension had not been drawn for some years when she died in a mental hospital: authority given for undrawn pension at date of her death to be given to legal personal representative   T 164/48/1
1925-1926   Rowland, Miss W: mental ill-health retirement; gratuity awarded   T 164/57/11
1926-1928   Forester, Miss M, sub-postmistress: mental ill health retirement; pension awarded on scale payment basis of emoluments   T 164/67/1
1927   Polgreen, Miss G A, school teacher: mental ill health retirement; short service gratuity awarded owing to broken service   T 164/71/32
1927-1928   Abrey, Miss A N: mental ill health retirement confirmed by Treasury medical referees; examination on appeal: pension awarded   T 164/74/15
1929   Compensation to widow of ship's stoker (who died of heatstroke due to working conditions) to be paid to trustees for her support at Milton Mental Hospital   T 164/82/16
1929   Shoebridge, Miss B: mental ill health retirement; preceding prolonged absence on special leave without pay for domestic reasons; not reckoned for pensions award   T 164/83/5
1907-1912   Separation allowance: question of issue on behalf of children of soldiers separated from wives or whose wives are confined to lunatic asylums   WO 32/4857
 
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