"An Evening Off" by Dr G.W.B. James Physician for Mental Diseases to St Mary's Hospital

• RET/5/11/18
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• 15 February 1929

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'Chief Attendant's Daily Report Book'; Males

• RET/6/18/1/1/2
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• 1912

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'Chief Attendant's Daily Report Book'; Males

• RET/6/18/1/1/5
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• 1920

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'Chief Attendant's Daily Report Book'; Males

• RET/6/18/1/1/1
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• 1910 - 1911

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'Chief Attendant's Daily Report Book'; Males

• RET/6/18/1/1/3
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• 1913

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'Chief Attendant's Daily Report Book'; Males

• RET/6/18/1/1/4
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• 1915

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'Chief Nurse's Daily Report Book; Females

• RET/6/18/1/2/1
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• 25 November 1897 - 11 December 1898

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'Each nurse has a single bedroom'; (nurse standing in bedroom)

• RET/1/8/9/3/22
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• Early 1950s

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'Family Party': staff and patients dancing at a party in the Recreation Hall (Picture Post photographs)

• RET/1/8/9/6/7
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• 1946

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'Letters re. Outstanding Accounts'

• RET/6/20/3/20
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• 1940 - 1942

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Relates to patients’ accounts.

'Life in a Mental Hospital by a Patient', Health Horizon

• RET/1/6/1/18
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• Mid 20th century

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Written by a patient at the Retreat; the Retreat is unnamed in this short article. The purpose of the article was to publicise the successful work being done in mental hospitals and to remove the popular stigma about them

'Life in a Mental Hospital', by Fyfe Robinson, Picture Post 23 November 1946; with 'Postscript' to article, with responses from readers, Picture Post 15 February 1947

• RET/1/6/1/17
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• 1946-1947

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This article of 1946 includes many photographs. Picture Post asked the Retreat in 1946 - the 150th anniversary year - to be allowed to produce an illustrated article. The journalist Fyfe Robertson and the photographer K. Hutton lived at the Retrea...

'Matron's Daily Report Book'; Females

• RET/6/18/1/2/2
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• 1902

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'Matron's Daily Report Book'; Females

• RET/6/18/1/2/9
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• 1933

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'Matron's Daily Report Book'; Females

• RET/6/18/1/2/5
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• 1920

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'Matron's Daily Report Book'; Females

• RET/6/18/1/2/7
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• 1931

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'Matron's Daily Report Book'; Females

• RET/6/18/1/2/3
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• 28 December 1907 - 31 December 1909

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'Matron's Daily Report Book'; Females

• RET/6/18/1/2/4
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• 1919

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'Matron's Daily Report Book'; Females

• RET/6/18/1/2/6
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• 1923

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'Matron's Daily Report Book'; Females

• RET/6/18/1/2/8
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• 1932

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