| Record Group: | Department of Institutions and Agencies |
| Subgroup: | New Jersey State Village for Epileptics at Skillman |
| Series: | Admission Registers, 1899-1952 |
| Accession #: | 1996.038 |
| Series #: | SINEP004 |
| Guide Date: | 11/1996 (EC) |
| Volume: | 3.0 c.f. [13 vols.] |
Institutional History | Content Note | Contents | Notice to Researchers
Access Note The records of patients admitted to state hospitals are confidential as stipulated by NJSA 30:4-24.3, which reads as follows:
Exceptions to this rule can only be made when: 1) the patient or his or her legal guardian gives consent to access; 2) a court, for the purposes of its proceedings, deems that failure of the disclosure of this information is contrary to the public interest; 3) disclosure is deemed necessary by the Commissioner of Human Services in order to carry out any provisions of Title 30 or Article 9 of NJSA 2A:82; or 4) disclosure is deemed necessary by the Commissioner of Human Services in order to conduct an investigation to determine the patient's financial ability to pay for services received. |
This
series consists of registers of admissions to the State Village
for the period 29 April 1899 to 27 December 1952. It should be
noted that an October 1899 report in the minutes of the board
of managers states that there were seven patients in the village;
however, these records show only five admissions by that time.
While the earliest records tend to be brief, the registers generally
include the following information for each patient: admission
number, the patient's name, sex, race, date and place of birth,
marital status, occupation, education, parents' names, and date
of release, transfer or death. Admission records in the first
volume (which are handwritten) usually include the supposed cause
of epilepsy and also list any known auras (physical warning signs
such as nausea or dizziness which may precede a seizure). Beginning
with the second volume, the registers contain pre-printed admission
pages and provide greater medical detail, including the following:
length of illness before admission, mental and physical condition,
type of seizures, and whether heredity is known to be a factor.
The later records also include the names of the examining physicians
and the name of the presiding judge (in cases where an individual
was committed by court order), and indicate whether an individual
was an indigent, private or committed patient. It should also be noted that Volume 13 of this series includes admission records for the Village's successor agency, the New Jersey Neuro-Psychiatric Institute. The Institute's admissions start with #6260 in February 1953, and are described more fully in the guide to the series: Department of Institutions and Agencies/ New Jersey Neuro-Psychiatric Institute/ Admission Registers, 1954-1961. |
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Notice to Researchers Using Admission Records of the
New Jersey State Village for Epileptics at Skillman
A
patient admission number will be needed in order to locate an individual
record in the State Village admission registers. Admission numbers
can be obtained by contacting:
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