What records can I find in The Mitchell: NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Archives and Glasgow City Archives?
Update: January 2022
NHS GGCA is running a reduced service until Spring 2022.
We will prioritise enquiries from people seeking access to their own information (or making a request on behalf of another person) – email archives-nhsggc@glasgow.ac.uk . However, we are unable to accept new enquiries relating to biographical or academic research, or to host reader visits.
We apologise for the inconvenience this causes. We are planning the reintroduction of services as soon as possible in the Spring.
Hospital records are mainly held in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Archives. The records consist primarily of the records of hospitals, clinics and asylums in Glasgow, Dunbartonshire, Greenock and Paisley. You can access a list of the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Archives holdings online.
The records vary but you may find:
registers of admissions and discharges
registers of birth
registers of death
ward registers or journals
case notes
registers of medical staff, including nurses and doctors
If you seek patient records within these periods, or information regarding your own treatment, you should contact the NHS Archivist.
The City Archives holds a number of records relating to lunacy including:
records of Glasgow District Lunacy Board, 1888-1944 (ref: D-HEW7) which includes registers of boarded-out mental patients, records of petitions for certification and registers of notified cases
lunatic asylum record books, 1943-1962 (ref: D-HEW35)
particulars of cases visited in regard to lunacy certificates, 1949-1962 (D-HEW36)
records of Renfrew District Luncacy Board, 1858-1948, (ref: CO2/8/1) including minute books and a register of pauper patients in Dykebar Asylum
registers of lunatics in Govan Combination Parish, 1877-1930 (D-HEW5/2)
These have a 75 year closure on records of adults, and a 100 year closure period on records of minors.