Please contact Research Enquiries, Tasmanian Archives:
Postal address: 91 Murray St, Hobart TAS 7000
Phone: (03) 6165 5538 or (03) 6165 5541
Website: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/get-help/help-with-research-and-finding-information/
Quote this number to access your records: Tasmanian Archives Series Number, HSD247
These records are held by Tasmanian Archives (2011 - current).
The Patient Records – Admission Register pertain to the Lunatic Asylum, Hospital for the Insane, Mental Diseases Hospital, and Lachlan Park Hospital between 1830 and 1954.
Open.
The register dated 1830-1900 has been digitised and is available online.
The records contain the patient’s number, name, age, marital status, occupation, date of admission, on whose authority, the disease, its possible cause and duration, and the date of discharge or death. A flood in the basement of the Administration Building destroyed the volume for 1954 to 1964.
The records are arranged chronologically.