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.

Content Note

This series consists of registers of admissions to the New Jersey Neuro-Psychiatric Institute for the period February 1953 to June 1983. The first admission records for the Institute are contained in the final volume (No. 13) of the admission registers of its predecessor, the New Jersey State Village for Epileptics at Skillman. A photocopy of the relevant portion of this volume is included here. Beginning with Volume 14, the Institute used its own admission form (though the State Village's admission number sequence was continued). The Neuro-Psychiatric Institute's admission form records the following information for each patient: admission number, the patient's name, sex, race, date and place of birth, marital status, occupation, name and relationship of responsible party, and date of release, transfer or death.

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