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DGH1 - Records of Crichton Royal Hospital
- 5 - Patient Records
  - 1 - Admission Papers

Ref No	DGH1/5/1/2
Title	Voluntary Sanctions
Description	Voluntary admission papers show patient name, number and date of admission, which is often a day or two before or after the date the form or letter was signed. The number and date of admission stop being recorded from 1941. Early voluntary admission papers, 1866-1870 are in the form of a letter from one of the Commissioners of the General Board of Lunacy for Scotland to the Medical Superintendent of Crichton Royal Institution, giving consent for the admission of a voluntary patient. From 1871 printed sanction forms appear and are completed and signed by the Commissioners. Eight admission forms, 1877-1879, have an additional form, 'Statement for Voluntary Patients', attached, which has sixteen questions completed by the applicant or their representative, giving details as to their background and illness. From 1917 accompanying manuscript and typed letters signed by the applicant begin to appear as attachments to many of the sanction forms, requesting admission as a voluntary boarder, and often giving the applicant's home address. In 1922 a printed form signed by the applicant starts to replace the letters as an attachment to the sanction form and gives details of their home address. The first rate-aided voluntary sanction form appears in January 1931 (although the first rate-aided voluntary patient was admitted in 1930) and comprises the printed sanction form and an additional printed form with the applicant's name, address, the signature and details of a medical practitioner recommending the applicant receives treatment, and details of the Local Authority admitting liability for the maintenance of the applicant. There are gaps in dates and many earlier papers have not survived. Arranged chronologically by date of admission. It should be noted that some applications dated in late December may have an admission date of January the following year.
Date	1866-1949
Related Material	Registers of Voluntary and Informal Patients, DGH1/5/4; Case Books, DGH1/5/21
Format	Typed, Manuscript and Printed
Category	Health & Welfare : HW

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Code	PersonName	Dates
DS/UK/138	General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland; 1858-1913	1858-1913
DS/UK/139	General Board of Control for Scotland; 1913-1960	1913-1960

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