Mental hospital records
British Columbia. Mental Health Services
Mental health services--British Columbia
Mental illness
People with mental disabilities--Institutional care--British Columbia
Psychiatric hospitals--British Columbia
British Columbia. Mental Health Services
Provincial Mental Home, Colquitz
Provincial Mental Hospital, Essondale
The series consists of records created by the Provincial Mental Health Services between 1872 and 1962 and includes
admission registers (1872-1902 and 1913-1960), case histories (1887-1908), patients registers (alphabetical lists of patients) (1900-1913 and 1922-1946), probation records (1911-1939), a patient transfer book (1918-1962) and a book of medical certificates of death (1911-1915).
The series also includes the journal of W. Mackie (February 8 - March 2, 1935), who accompanied 65 Chinese patients who were deported to China in 1935. The journal lists the names of the patients and gives information about their voyage. The annual report of the mental hospital for 1935 (Sessional Papers 1936) mentions that 65 Chinese patients were repatriated that year.
The registers contain useful information, including age, sex, marital status, paying or free, date of admission, religion, country of birth, present residence, duration of mental malady, diagnosis, supposed cause, number of attacks, occupation, degree of education and bodily state on admission. The admission registers are an index to the patient files because the register number assigned at admission was used as the patient file number.
1872-1962
3.4 m of textual records
https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca//mental-hospital-records
GR-1754
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