> Hi Rita, Actually KEW does not have the Haslar register of admissions for that time period. I was doing research at KEW in April and it would have helped me tremendously had I had access to those records. It seems that there is an problem with the catalogue for ADM 305. There is an annotation that those records have been transferred to ADM 304. However, those (304) are the records for the hospital at Malta. I spoke with one of the volunteer staff members who told me that the catalogue needs to be corrected. But even then, the admissions log book only shows the date of admission and the diagnosis when admitted. There is no link to the separate death log book (if it's even available for that period). Thanks to everyone who replied and to Linda and Tony for the lookup. I've sent an e-mail to Jackie Clark asking if she has something. In answer to your question, Rita: the death cert notes "cerebral disease" and "phthisia" so I guess it was TB that did him in. It appears that he did not quite make it to a full 20 years in RN so I assume his family (wife & 5 children) got nothing when he died. So now I need to try to discover what happened to his family before they came to the US in 1883 (12 years after his death). They do not appear in the 1881 census and I suspect they were in Ireland (her birthplace). Michael Kinney Portland, Oregon > Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:26:19 +0100 > From: "Rita Newton" <Rita@ritanewton.wanadoo.co.uk> > Subject: Re: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] Burial - George Smith - 1871 > To: <eng-ham-portsmouth-gosport@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <002f01c8d70a$32cc6540$51b04f51@userfjs4227gib> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Do you know why he was at Hasler Hospital? The hospital records are > at Kew. > Rita