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PHOTOGRAPHIC SCRAPBOOK OF THE KENT COUNTY ASYLUM CHARTHAM

1910réf. 1362Original photographic scrapbook. c.1910-1935. Folio 41 x 32cm. Contemporary beige cloth with remnants of painted decoration and pasted paper images to the boards and spine. The contents comprising 91pp. of black and white photographs and postcards mounted on tick card leaves with occasional ink-stamp annotations completely full. 37pp. of these containing over 115 original photographs plus a few postcards directly relating to Chartham Mental Hospital with the remainder detailing other apparently related local military and family scenes presumably that of the compiler who was most likely a staff member as well as some broader art/theatre images. There is some splitting to the upper joint and wear and rubbing to the spine and boards although remaining firmly bound. The contents with five leaves removed five images removed from the extant pages including one page partially cut away other pages apparently with images removed and subsequently replaced although this done contemporaneously by the compiler a little chipping to page edges and occasional abrasion nicks or minor marks to a few of the images are otherwise in good order. An unusual photographic scrapbook documenting life at Chartham Mental Hospital during the first decades of the twentieth century predominantly the 1920s-30s. Presumably kept by a staff member or possibly a patient the album depicts hospital staff at work and leisure including male and female nurses and specific portraits of Drs. Taylor Baker and Pearce portraits of patients staff and patient football teams cricket teams and musical bands fancy dress and Christmas parties images of the hospital decorated for various events and several military images possibly relating to staff/patients. The hospital was originally founded as the second or East Kent County Asylum in 1872 near the village of Chartham on the outskirts of Canterbury. In 1920 it was renamed the Kent County Mental Hospital Chartham developing into a self-contained village with its own farm workshops baker butcher fire-brigade church graveyard gasworks sports teams and band with male patients typically working on the farm and female patients working in the laundry or as seamstresses. During this period following the end of the end of the First World War as covered in the present scrapbook the hospital also housed a number of ex-service patients who often had special privileges. In 1948 the hospital became part of the National Health Service and was renamed St Augustine's Hospital eventually closing in 1993. [Original photographic scrapbook]. hardcover

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Chinese Migration and Death in Colonial Cuba: Havana Hospital Admission Certificate and Death Certificate for a 29-Year-Old Indentured Servant Chinese Man 1869

1869réf. 238101869. Chinese migrant hospital certificate from Havana in 1869 documenting the admission and death of a man identified in manuscript as a native of China within the Real Hospital de Caridad de San Felipe y Santiago. Issued while Chinese contract labor supplied Cuba with a large migrant workforce under a system regulating employment movement subsistence discipline and medical treatment the certificate records one individual at the point where that labor regime intersected with colonial hospital administration. Chinese labor contracts of the period commonly stipulated medical attendance and hospital care during illness while later testimony documented high rates of sickness and death among Chinese workers subjected to excessive labor inadequate food punishment and compulsory recontracting. Real Hospital de Caridad de San Felipe y Santiago Comisaría. Havana 1869.One partially printed document completed in manuscript in brown ink one leaf. 5.75" x 7.25". The form identifies the deceased as "natural de China" and records his age as 29 years followed by manuscript entries in printed fields for civil status and parentage. The institutional formula begins "Ha fallecido en la." and subsequently records the date on which the man "ingreso enfermo en este Real Hospital." Following his death the printed text directs that "cuyo cadaver se remite al Cementerio general para que se le de sepultura" then requests the appropriate administrative orders "para que asi se verifique." The certificate concludes "Dios guarde á V. muchos años" with a manuscript Havana date in 1869 and signatures. Manuscript annotations extend across the printed fields and margins with extensive brown ink offsetting and show through on the verso. Chinese contract migration to Cuba began in 1847 and brought more than 100000 migrants to the island before the overseas contract trade ended in the 1870s. The overwhelming majority were men recruited from southern China and bound to fixed terms of labor under contracts governing wages subsistence discipline illness and medical treatment. By 1869 these migrants worked within an economy in which African slavery and Chinese indenture operated concurrently particularly in sugar production but also in transportation construction manufacturing domestic service and urban employment. Hospital records add a different administrative dimension to the labor contracts through which this population is more commonly documented. Surviving records of the Real Hospital de Caridad de San Felipe y Santiago classify patients by names ages origins racial or legal categories illnesses and deaths and institutional holdings preserve certificates specifically concerning Chinese colonos. Moderate toning and staining small marginal wormholes old folds and extensive brown ink offsetting and show through; manuscript and printed text remain substantially legible. Overall good condition. An individualized record of the medical and mortuary bureaucracy through which an Asian migrant was classified hospitalized and buried in Havana in 1869. unknown books