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  <dc:title>Patient Care Records: Isle of Man Lunatic Asylum and its successors</dc:title>
  <dc:description>This series gathers records regarding the Isle of Man Lunatic Asylum and Ballamona Hospital's patients' health care during their stay in the institution.
It comprises:
   -case books from the early period of the hospital, which are organised by patient admission and indexed at the back. They depict the patient's condition on arrival and the treatment they undertook during their stay in the institution;
   -Head Nurses' reports that describe any outstanding circumstances relating to patients during their shift, and cover all wards of the Hospital;
   -registers of mechanical restraint and seclusion;
   -Medical Superintendent discharge recommendations;
   -a notebook that records sick patients and when their family was contacted regarding the situation;
   -patients' case notes that are organised by date of death since the late 1960's and that reflect the continuation of the case books series.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1864-1995</dc:date>
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