Admission Books, Patient Registers, Death Records, and Admission Books to the Lunatic Asylum

This volume records the account of the Infirmary with Morgan & Co. (probably Thomas Morgan & Co., druggists, 17 Canal Street). It essentially is a record of the supplies, drugs and other materials purchased for the Infirmary from just before its opening through the first few months of its second year of operation.

Records include:

• Correspondence, Incoming and Outgoing
• Records of the City Pound
• Records of the Indigent Insane
• Reports from Parish Prison and Police Jail
• Permits
• Financial Records
• Occupants of Stalls in Public Markets

The registers include some or all of the following information: name, place of birth, “reference” (often an address, or name, presumably, of the person to be contacted), dates of admission and discharge, date of death (if appropriate), and diagnosis. A partial index (letters K-W) is filmed at the front of the volume. Ante-bellum records include entries for enslaved people.

The Golden Book of Life, Record of Patients, Record of Deaths, and Admission Books for Touro Infirmary.