Unit 1 (Yarra Bend), 26 Oct 1848 – 11 Nov 1912 (PDF file, 61.6 MB)
Unit 2 (Collingwood) 1864 - 1871 (PDF file, 6.9 MB)
Unit 3 (Ararat) 1867 - 1884 (PDF file, 21.6 MB)
Unit 4 (Beechworth) 1867 - 1884 (PDF file, 14.9 MB)
Unit 5 (Cremorne) 1867 - 1884 (PDF file, 7.5 MB)
Unit 6 (Kew) 1871 - 1884 (PDF file, 49.2 MB)
Unit 7 (Ballarat) 1877 - 1884 (PDF file, 4.5 MB)
Unit 8 (Sunbury) 1879 - 1884 (PDF file, 9.0 MB)


Downloading these files
The files on this page contain the complete text of the volumes in the series and are very large. The files will take some time to download entirely.

To speed your viewing of the contents you can use the ‘Bookmark’ feature of your .pdf viewer. The bookmarks jump to the beginning of each letter of the alphabet for which there are patient names in the volume.

If you click on a bookmark link the pdf viewer will jump to downloading that page. You can then view or print that entry. If you have captured the information you need, use the 'back' button of your browser to stop the download of the file. You will need to wait until the complete file has finished downloading before you can save a copy to your local hard drive.

Using this record
Each volume in this series relates to a particular asylum. Each volume records the name of patients admitted to the asylum. In each volume, entries are arranged alphabetically by the first letter of patients' surnames and then chronologically by date of admission within each alphabetical grouping.

Details recorded for each patient in most of the volumes include their full name, nationality, last known address, relative's address, discharge details (including death). Volumes 7 and 8 only include information about where patients were transferred from and their discharge details. These records can provide dates of admission to allow researchers to locate patient records in the case books for each of the asylums (except for Cremorne) corresponding to the volumes in the present series.

Link to series details for these volumes

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