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Series VPRS
7686
Register of Voluntary Boarders
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Date Range:
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1915 - 1966
Series in Custody
1915 - 1966
Contents
1915 - 1975
Public Access:
Closed
Location:
North Melbourne
Format of Records:
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1915 - 1966
Kew (Asylum 1871-1905; Hospital for the Insane 1905-1934; Mental Hospital 1934-c.1970's; Mental/Psychiatric Hospital c.1970's-1988)
VA 2840
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Department of Health and Human Services
VA 5037
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System of Arrangement/Control
Series: Chronological by date of admission
Contents: Chronological by date of admission
Range of Control Symbols
Series: Vol 1: no symbols apparent
Vols 2-3: 9.4.57-17.1.62 to 17.1.62-1.1.66
Contents: 23.2.1915 to 12.1.1966
Under Division 13 the Lunacy Act of 1915, a person could be admitted to a hospital for the insane as a voluntary boarder upon making and signing a request form. Voluntary boarders could be detained in a hospital for the insane for three days after they applied in writing to be discharged.
The Registers were used between 1915 and 1966, after which time admissions and discharges of voluntary boarders were recorded with all other admissions and discharges in the Register of Patient Admission and Discharge, VPRS 7682.
Details recorded in the Register of Voluntary Boarders include:
- the patient's name
- dates of admission and discharge
- age on admission
- marital status
- address
- in some cases the form of mental disorder
- period of residence which had been agreed upon
- the name and address of the patient's closest relative.
From 1953 onwards voluntary boarders were given an admission number prefixed by the letter "V". These numbers control the arrangement of warrants for the admission of patients to Kew, VPRS 7719.
By obtaining a date of discharge/death from these registers patient files can also be located. These files are found in VPRS 7693, Patient Clinical Notes (for patients admitted between 1912 and 1953) and VPRS 7676, Patient Medical Files (for patients admitted between 1953 and 1988).
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Admission Warrants - Voluntary Boarders
VPRS 7719
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- 1966
Register of Patient Admission and Discharge
VPRS 7682
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1915 - Circa 1975
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