I always like reading articles that
remind me a forgotten avenue of research or inform me of one I hadn’t
considered before. The former was the
case with Robin Foster’s Seven places to
find hospital records (Examiner.com).
When looking at a
death certificate, though I always pay attention to who, what, where and when,
if I am seeking more information, my focus is typically on “where” is the
person buried (and are there other family buried there?) and “who” handled the
funeral/cremation (did they do the same for other family members?).
I have sometimes flirted with information regarding the hospital and that often is more in the context to see if a local newspaper may have published hospital admission (and related) information.
Or, if there is a
chance that a person was “committed” for psychiatric reasons, I have sometimes
sought those records.
Given Robin’s list,
I decided to what the NC Archives has in its collection. I learned that it has a lot of non-textual
(aka photographs) records. I also found
the following kinds of records:
+ English and
British Records (pre-end of Revolutionary War) – many entries referencing Greenwich Hospital
+ Maps showing hospitals
amongst other landmarks
+ Military hospital
records
+ Organizational
records (e.g. Rex Hospital School of Nursing)
+ Private
Collections (e.g. New Marine Hospital ,
Wilmington
+ Soldiers’ Home
Association Hospital Registers et al
+ State Hospital
+ Small record
collections such as:
+
Accounts and reports for City Hospital of Wilmington, 1897-1898
+
Elizabeth City Hospital Company (folder includes 2 civil actions, 1916, 1918)
+
Petition for and commitment of Albert Smith to the State Hospital
+
Rex Hospital
records (two suits, John McLeod vs. David W. Stone & H. Harris, trustees of
Rex Hospitals
and many more types
of records.
To date, I have only examined the Soldiers’ Home Association records and I just may have to check out some other of the listed records.
Have you researched into Hospital Records? Where have you found them? What made them invaluable to your research?
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