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                    [0] => These files contain the papers relating to voluntary patient's admission, hospitalisation, treatment and death or discharge at Seacliff Mental Hospital.
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            [id] => 19855
            [idSort] => 19855
            [name] => Seacliff Voluntary Boarder Admission Files
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                    [custom5] => Split-pin foolscap files
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                            [0] => 26617
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	Under the Mental Defectives Act 1911, the Superintendent was able to admit or detain any person for treatment upon the person signing a request. These files contain the papers relating to voluntary patients admission, hospitalisation, treatment and death or discharge at Seacliff Hospital.  Patients were assigned a running number when they were admitted to Seacliff Hospital.

	Most of the files in this series have been stamped on the front cover with the word 'Purged'.  In 1965 a circular was sent to all Medical Superintendents from the Head Office of the Department of Healths Division of Mental Health.  The circular recommended that  the files of patient who were discharged between 10 and 50 years ago could be purged.  The papers to be removed included "leave forms, trivial correspondence, temperature charts, etc".  The following papers were to be retained - one copy of the preliminary statement, applications for admission and medical certificates, Clinical notes on forms M.H.57 and M.H.58, Medicine Cards, ECT Cards, Questionnaires and any correspondence likely to be of legal or clinical significance.

	From 1950 the files in this series were top-numbered into series 19856 when the patient had either died or been discharged. In 1969 the files were top-numbered into the general patient discharges (series 19852).
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                            [name] => Dunedin repository
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            [ricClassificationDescription] => Running number by admission date, with the prefix VB (for Voluntary Boarder)
            [seriesAccessContacts] => 

	Chief Executive, Southern District Health Board, Private Bag 1921, Dunedin 9054.
            [seriesRestrictionReason] => 

	To protect personal privacy:

	(a) All public archives containing health information about identifiable individuals are restricted for 100 years from the date of the last paper or last entry in the record.

	(b) All Seacliff and Orokonui mental hospital patient casebooks are restricted for 100 years from the year of admission of the last patient in each casebook.

	(c) All public archives containing sensitive personal information about staff and students are restricted for 75 years from the date of the last paper or last entry in the record.

	(d) Individual patient archives will not be listed by name in the public finding aids of Archives New Zealand, nor will information confirming the existence of the public archive be made available, during the period the public archive is restricted.

	Access to restricted public archives and lists of restricted individual patient public archives, is not available without the written permission of the Southern District Health Board and any successor.
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