Sheriff's Warrants

CRI nos. 11119-11359 This volume contains lists of patients transfered from Renfrew District Asylum at Dykebar, who were moved due to their facilities being requisitioned by the War Office for use as a Military Hospital. Loose items found in this volume: 1) Sanction by the General Board of Control for Liberation of a Patient on Trial, 31 July 1917 2) Excerpt from Kirkmahoe Parish Council regarding the discharge of a patient, 5 October 1920 3) Sanction by the General Board of Control for Liberation of a Patient on Trial, 30 April 1917 4) Excerpt from minute of meeting of Canonbie Parish Council regarding the discharge of a patient, 22 December 1919 5) Ministry of Pensions form authorising the classification of a Service Patient from 19 December 1917 6) Excerpt from minute of meeting of Glencairn Parish Council regarding the discharge of a patient, 14 April and 2 May 1917

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A new class of patient, the Service Patient, was established during the First World War after an agreement was made with the War Office to admit these patients at a fixed rate of board into the Third Department of Crichton Royal Institution, with their board being paid by the Ministry of Pensions. These patients were Soldiers and Sailors who had served during the First World War and had been admitted to an asylum due to mental illness caused or aggravated by their period of service. This scheme was later extended to Officers, with the Ministry of Pensions paying a higher fixed rate of board for their admission into the First Department of the Hospital. Patients continued to be classified as Service Patients during the interwar years and the Second World War.

Records of Dykebar Hospital, GB 812 AC 18, held by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Archives.

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