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Medical Records information for Melrose and places above it in the hierarchy

Melrose

Records of Dingleton Hospital at Melrose are held in the Lothian Health Services Archives. Dingleton Hospital opened in 1872 and was the lunatic asylum for patients from the counties of Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk. The hospital closed in 2001. The surviving records include detailed patient records from 1845 (including the pre-Dingleton era when patients from the Borders were sent to Musselburgh near Edinburgh) as well as records of staff. Note that the records are subject to closure periods for privacy reasons. For details see the LHSA website.

Roxburghshire

Ian E. McCracken wrote an article on "Eighteenth Century Medical Care: A Study of Roxburghshire" in the 1949 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. The article is available to read online.

For details of surviving records for Kelso Dispensary (founded 1777) see the Kelso parish page.

For details of surviving records for Dingleton Hospital at Melrose (from 1872 the lunatic asylum for Roxburghshire, Berwickshire and Selkirkshire) see the Melrose parish page.

Scotland

  • Hospital Records Database A Joint Project of the Wellcome Trust and the National Archives. This database provides information on the existence and location of the records of hospitals in the U.K.

UK and Ireland