The following records were obtained from the state archives and are on the restricted access list. All information has been transcribed as originally written, so all info is not 100% correct. Also, some of the patient numbers are skipped, it’s assumed there was another admissions book/register that no longer exists.
African American and White Patient Admissions
1824-1923
Note: Entries in blue are buried in hospital grounds.
Be sure to scroll both vertically and horizontally to access all of the information in the index.
Contributed by Phil Tkacz | contact@kyhi.org
⁘ Works Cited ⁘
- Eastern State Hospital (Lexington, Kentucky). Admissions Registers, 1824-1952. Record Group 1428E, OCLC 907013315. Special Collections, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY.
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