Under the Act for the Treatment of Insane Persons, 9 Geo IV c. 41 (1828), Pembroke House could receive patients only when two doctors had signed a medical certificate. These volumes contain printed forms filled in with the name, age, residence, occupation and former asylum of the patient, the nam...
The registers were required to be kept under the Act for the Regulation of the Care and Treatment of Lunatics, 8 & ; 9 Vic c 100 (1845). They give the patients' personal details, date of admission, brief summary of the condition, date of death or discharge, and "observations".