Death records – Hospital death registers

Many admission and discharge registers kept by hospitals include information about patients who died in hospital. In some cases, a separate register of deaths may be kept. For a few Scottish hospitals these registers go back to the second half of the 18th century. The form and information content of registers vary between hospitals.

There is a centralised hospitals database which is no longer being updated but which will give some indication of where records may be found <https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/search.asp > [accessed 26 April 2024]

The Wellcome Collection has digitised registers of deaths from some hospitals. <https://wellcomecollection.org/collections> [accessed 26 April 2024]