Description:St Matthew’s Hospital, Burntwood case note extract for Alice Florendine charwoman: ‘has illegitimate child of 14 also one dead’…’practically nothing in the house’… ‘hopes she shant always be punished’. Alice recovered but by 1911 she was in Tamworth workhouse and died a few years later.
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.