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VPRS 7423 Nominal Register of Patients (Royal Park Receiving House)

Public Record Office Victoria
Royal Park (Receiving House 1907-1959; Hospital for the Insane 1909-1934; Mental Hospital 1934-1954; Psychiatric Hospital 1959-1999)
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This series consists of the Nominal Register of Patients at the Royal Park Receiving House.

It was maintained separately from the records of the Royal Park Hospital for the Insane. These volumes record the name of every patient admitted to the Receiving House. Details recorded include:

- the name of patient
- date of admission
- date of discharge/transfer/death.


The function of the Receiving House was to further examine the mental state of those persons who were not certified as insane by two medical practitioners. People were to be retained in the Receiving House for no longer than seven (7) days while further examinations would take place and it would be determined whether the patient should be committed to the Hospital for the Insane. Alternatively any Justice could order that any person should be conveyed to a Receiving House while further examinations took place.

Data time period: [1907 TO 1934]

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