VPRS 17812 Admission and Discharge Register of Patients (Tuberculosis Sanatorium)

Full description

This series contains registers used to record admissions and discharges from Gresswell's (VA 5077) tuberculosis sanatorium, before the sanatorium function of the institution was discontinued.

Initially registers maintained were officially known as the Book of Admissions. In some institutions the Register was also known as an Admissions Register or as an Admission and Discharge Register and these terms were sometimes stamped on the volumes.

Details recorded may included:

- patient's name
- date of admission
- admission number
- date of last previous admission
- age
- marital status
- occupation
- previous place of abode
- religion
- form of mental disorder
- state of physical health.

Further details were entered in the register on the death, transfer or discharge of a patient. Institutions were also required to maintain a separate Register of Discharges, Removals and Deaths, usually known as a Discharge Register.