The archive for the Lungegård Hospital

Lungegård Hospital was a research and treatment hospital, with a curative department and a care department. The hospital opened in 1849 and closed in 1897. The hospital’s archival material can be found in the Regional State Archives in Bergen and in the Bergen City Archives.

The hospital’s archive includes documentation for minutes books, copybooks, journals and case files from the hospital’s management. There is also other administrative material such as more general copybooks, journals and case files. Some copybooks were associated with the bookkeeper and the different superintendents that have worked at the hospital. Patient information is also included in this documentation.

Documentation about patients is mainly in the form of application records, admission records, discharge records, and medical records. There is also documentation about the work of the residents, such as work journals, work records and cash books for pay.

The archive contains accounting documents in the form of subsidiary and general ledgers, as well as accounts books and cash books. The oldest surviving accounting documents date from the 1860s – there are no accounting records dating back to the foundation of the hospital. The archive also contains inventory summaries, food and clothing records, weather observation records, as well as a school register for the children who attended the school at Lungegård Hospital. The archive also contains Danielssen and Boeck’s colour atlas of leprosy, as well as some material from Daniel C. Danielssen