george braine-hartnell, medical superintendent 1897-1919

Dr. Frank Crompton, Research Fellow, has worked “obsessively” for almost 20 years to ensure that the Patients’ Notes from the Worcester City and County Pauper Lunatic Asylum are secure for future use by historians.

We are pleased to e-Publish his most recent book: GEORGE BRAINE-HARTNELL: The Man Who Administered the Worcester Mental Hospital in a Period of Gross Overcrowding and Then Through the Great War and Its Aftermath – 1897 to 1919.

Click the following link to download the book as a .pdf., which Dr. Crompton has also indexed: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55b52e37e4b0addeebb56e63/t/63c53511e629af326188bc94/1673868563144/George+Brain+Hartwell%2C+Frank+Crompton+2023.pdf

You can find further resources by Dr. Crompton at the following link on our website:- https://medicalmuseum.org.uk/frank-crompton