Archives behind the scenes – mental hospital records
In this episode Emily shows us a medical case book from Gladesville hospital.
The featured medical case book details patient information such as native place, occupation, physical description, how the patient came to be in a mental hospital as well as the treatment, if a patient was cured, died or transferred to another hospital.
These records are closed for 110 years.
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