The Surrey County Asylum at Netherne was built 1907-9, due to the inadequate accommodation provided at the County Asylum at Brookwood Hospital, Woking. Surrey County Council had purchased the Netherne estate in 1898 with the aim of building an asylum there. The architect was GT Hine FRIBA, Consulting Architect to HM Commissioners in Lunacy, and the asylum was built at a cost of £300,000. From 1948, with the establishment of the National Health Service, hospital management came under the overall control of the South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. Netherne hospital closed in 1994.

Important: please note that any patient records less than 100 years old and staff records less than 75 years old are likely to have access restrictions. Individual records are not available to view through this website. For details on viewing records please see the Access To Mental Hospital Records page.

The main accession numbers to find records for Netherne Hospital at Surrey History Centre are 3540, 6376, 6523 and 7338 (click on the individual links to see the archive records).

The principal series of records held at Surrey History Centre and relating to individual patients are as follows, although there are gaps in some series:

• Burial Registers, 1909-1960
• Patient Case Files, 1909-1960
• Admission Registers, 1909-1996
• Discharge/Transfer and Discharge/Death Registers, 1909-1996
• Death Registers, 1909-1931
• Notice of Death Registers, 1909-1994
• Inquest Register, 1942-1991
• Post Mortem Register, 1942-1947

Surrey History Centre also hold Staff Records, 1905-1992

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Barbara Lawrence In June 1940 my mother Barbara Greene was a VAD serving at Netherne Emergency Hospital. I\'m researching my British family during World War II and want to learn more about the hospital and staff who were there at that time. If you can help, please contact me at: info@barbaralawrence.com. Thank you for your help.

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