South Yorkshire Asylum, Admission Records | theranchhands.com
Prior to its construction, the largest asylum in Yorkshire was the West Riding County Asylum in Wakefield, which opened in , but due to overcrowding an alternative hospital was needed. According to the census records there were 1, patients and staff at the asylum. The chief attendant to the asylum was William Hodgson, who lived there with his wife.
At the time of the census, his niece and nephew were staying with them.
There were 2 cooks, 9 housemaids and kitchen maids, 64 nurses and 22 attendants, including Walter Harner the gatekeeper and his wife. During the First World War the hospital was used as a war hospital. Over a thousand beds were made available for the War Office. It was used as a war hospital again during the Second World War. The hospital had its own church and a working farm until the early s.
Causes of Insanity
Eventually the hospital was scaled down and then closed in the late s. Today the site has been converted into residential apartments.
Many of the first patients admitted were not insane. Some were paupers brought over from the workhouses and others suffered from epilepsy. In the records there are patients admitted with epilepsy.
1881 Census: Residents of Union Workhouse, Alma Road, Rotherham, York
During the years these records were recorded, depression was not as well known or recognized as it is today. Only 28 were admitted with depression and an additional two admitted with melancholy. Local archives are the best source of information on workhouses. Workhouse records at The National Archives usually relate to the general business of the workhouses rather than individual inmates or members of staff.
Memories of Rotherham workhouse
Under the Poor Law Amendment Act of parishes were grouped into unions and each union had to build a workhouse if they did not already have one. To find out in which union a particular parish belonged, see Poor Law Union Records: The records sometimes include details of individual paupers and workhouse staff. This may help you to find out whether a person was in a workhouse at a certain date. Browse our catalogue in MH 9 for registers of paid officers of the Poor Law Commission and its successors.
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