Any ideas about who I can contact to try and find her hospital record? Thanks again, everyone, for your help Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Peat" <anne.peat@bigwindows.demon.co.uk> To: "Roger Partridge" <r.partridge@ukonline.co.uk> Cc: "Neil & Jan Hearn" <neil.hearn3@bigpond.com>; <ESSEX-UK@rootsweb.com>; <middlesex_county_uk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:19 PM Subject: Re: [Ess] [MDX] Asylum > The implications are that the asylum in Colchester was a mental hospital. > > Anne > On 28 Oct 2008, at 23:05, Roger Partridge wrote: > >> G'day Jan ! >> >> I have no detailed medical knowledge whatsoever ! - but if you put >> "Mitral >> Disease" into Google you will get over 9,000 hits ! - I only looked >> at the 10 >> on the first page, but I think you will find it is a heart disease >> connected with >> the mitral valve ! I don't think there is any mental illness >> implied here at all; >> I think the word 'Asylum' is being used in an old sense of a hospital >> or place >> to rest and recover ?? Perhaps any Listers with medical knowledge may >> care >> to comment on my "diagnosis" ? >> >> Best Wishes ! Roger. >> --------------------- >> On 28 Oct 2008, at 20:57, Neil & Jan Hearn wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> Thanks for all the helpful replies. The 1914 death >>> certificate >>> states she died at "Essex Colchester Asylum" but gives her cause of >>> death as >>> Mitral Disease with no reference to any mental illness. >>> >>> Jan >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Robert Hina" <robhina@btinternet.com> >>> To: <middlesex_county_uk@rootsweb.com> >>> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:00 AM >>> Subject: Re: [MDX] Asylum >>> >>> >>>> In 1953 the hospital was re-named Warley Hospital but the major >>>> part of it >>>> was closed down and sold >>>> to property developers around 2000. >>>> The site below gives one view on the development, but googling >>>> 'Warley' >>>> will give quite a few others. >>>> boredtown.co.uk/warley.html >>>> >>>> My father was treated there from the mid-forties to mid-fifties >>>> and we >>>> used to go back to see some of his >>>> mates, mainly those who had not recovered psychologically from their >>>> war-time service/experiences. >>>> I believe that we used to go to E-block on these occasions. It was >>>> very >>>> disconcerting to find that E-block >>>> had been replaced by an almost disney-esque housing development. I >>>> think >>>> about a quarter of the old site >>>> has housing built on it but it still had some of the broad vistas >>>> down the >>>> hill that I remember from my >>>> childhood. There is still a series of operating NHS units at the >>>> top of >>>> the site, but the old Victorian Gothic >>>> core is being converted into flats and offices as far as I >>>> understand. >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ---- >>>> From: Margaret Grundy <margaret.g39@btinternet.com> >>>> To: middlesex_county_uk@rootsweb.com >>>> Sent: Tuesday, 28 October, 2008 5:57:34 PM >>>> Subject: [MDX] Asylum >>>> >>>> The Essex County Asylum is not the same as Severalls Colchester. >>>> >>>> The Essex County Insane Asylum was in Brentwood Essex and opened >>>> in 1853 >>>> with 450 patients.It changed to the Brentwood Mental Hospital in >>>> 1920.It >>>> is >>>> now a park as far as I can tell. >>>> There is more on the web if you look for either hospitals. >>>> >>>> Margaret >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>> MIDDLESEX_COUNTY_UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >>>> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>> MIDDLESEX_COUNTY_UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >>>> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK- >>> admin@rootsweb.com >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ESSEX-UK- >>> request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >>> in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

I don't think the ERO has any records. I think you have to write to North East Essex Hospital Trust [or similar?] I expect a search engine will supply an address. Glynis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil & Jan Hearn" > Any ideas about who I can contact to try and find her hospital record? > > Thanks again, everyone, for your help > Jan > ----- Original Message ----- > >> The implications are that the asylum in Colchester was a mental >> hospital.

Hi Jan, Try looking in the Hospital database put together by the National Archives and the Wellcome Foundation http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/default.asp Anne On 29 Oct 2008, at 09:02, Neil & Jan Hearn wrote: > Any ideas about who I can contact to try and find her hospital record? > > Thanks again, everyone, for your help > Jan > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Peat" <anne.peat@bigwindows.demon.co.uk > > > To: "Roger Partridge" <r.partridge@ukonline.co.uk> > Cc: "Neil & Jan Hearn" <neil.hearn3@bigpond.com>; <ESSEX-UK@rootsweb.com > >; > <middlesex_county_uk@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:19 PM > Subject: Re: [Ess] [MDX] Asylum > > >> The implications are that the asylum in Colchester was a mental >> hospital. >> >> Anne >> On 28 Oct 2008, at 23:05, Roger Partridge wrote: >> >>>