Admissions, Discharges and Death Ledger

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Admissions, Discharges and Death Ledger

This volume combines all elements of the separate admissions and discharge ledgers. Column headers are as follows: Date, Name, Age, Place of Birth, Occupation, By Whose Order, Disease, Date of Discharge, Date of Death and Remarks. Diseases include cancer, insanity, simple and scrofula, blindness and intemperance. Occupations include coachmen, laborers, married, single and spinster. Remarks include name alias or an ID number. Arrangement is chronological and alphabetical.

Identifier: REC0008_02_175

Title: Admissions, Discharges and Death Ledger

Title: Series 2: Commissioners of the Almshouse and Bridewell

Collection: Almshouse ledgers

Start Date: 1803

End Date: 1847

Description: This volume combines all elements of the separate admissions and discharge ledgers. Column headers are as follows: Date, Name, Age, Place of Birth, Occupation, By Whose Order, Disease, Date of Discharge, Date of Death and Remarks. Diseases include cancer, insanity, simple and scrofula, blindness and intemperance. Occupations include coachmen, laborers, married, single and spinster. Remarks include name alias or an ID number. Arrangement is chronological and alphabetical.

Creator: New York (N.Y.). Commissioners of the Almshouse and Bridewell

Borough: Roosevelt Island (New York, N.Y.)

Type: Text

Format: Volumes (documents by form)

Source: New York City Municipal Archives

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Language: eng

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