Patient Admission

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Promotional materials relating to Edinburgh Northern Hospitals

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Patient records for Herdmanflat Hospital. Volumes, bundles and items are handwritten.

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This volume give the date, number, name of patient, address and diagnosis.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Management 1922-1999; administration 1925-1998; finance 1923-1962; patients (bound records) c1914-1991; patients (unbound records) 1940s-1965

Where no title has been given for an item, these have been estimated using square brackets.

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Registers giving admission and discharge dates for patients.

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Details given in these volumes include: name, patient number; date of voluntary admission; date of discharge/death; result of treatment and observations.

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The Register of Admissions of Voluntary Patients contains the patient’s admission number, name, date of admission, date of discharge or death, diagnosis and result of treatment, e.g. “relieved”.

Scope and Contents LHB5/6/1-8 give the patient’s number, name, age, sex, residence, disease and any remarks on the case. From LHB5/6/11 the volumes are untitled, are in a notebook format and give the date of admission, number, name, unit number, diagnosis, doctor, ward, arrival time, time seen and departure time. From LHB5/6/24 the volumes are called firstly OPD Registers then Casualty Registers and give date, name, unit number, diagnosis, doctor, operations, ward, arrival time, time...