Annual Lists, 1828-1907.

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Contains ledgers featuring lists of patients present at Western State Hospital during the course of a given year. The annual lists contain the patient's admission number, name, occupation, date of admission, sex, age, social relation, education, nativity, place of residence, number of attacks, cause of illness and its duration, date of removal or death, cause of death, and at times, notes about family medical history. The hospital used calendar years until September 1847, when they switched to a fiscal year format that began on 1 October and ran until 30 September of the following year. The annual lists for 1878-1907 are numbered and it appears that the first through sixth volumes are missing, since the numbering begins at volume seven. In the first volume, patient information for the years 1828-1830 is recorded in admission register format, but it is recorded in annual list format for the remaining years, 1831-1845. (It is possible that this volume could have started out as the first admission register, with its information transferred to that ledger at a later date). Clothing inventory lists for patients and servants during 1830-1831 are also included in this volume. Additional information on clothing and linen inventories can be found in Series III. Financial Records, Subseries L. Supply Inventories. The final volume (1910-1913) contains three alphabetical lists of patients present during July 1910, January 1911, and January 1913. The annual lists contain much of the same information found in the biennial lists and admission registers, so researchers should utilize all three types of records.

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