Description:St Matthew’s Hospital, Burntwood case note extract for Frances Jones: housewife, 52 ‘had 14 children, 6 died, most in infancy’…. ‘says she is in misery’…. Frances was a long-term patient and lived into old age.
In the Victorian era men and women with mental health conditions were sent to the Asylum. These women were treated at St Matthew’s Hospital, Burntwood. The photographs are in their case notes, which include background information about their lives.
The personal histories of the people shown here are contained in these written records produced by the hospitals, and now held by the Archive Service. To request these records contact Staffordshire Record Office by following the resource link on the right.