Medical records can provide an interesting glimpse into our relations' lives.
Many people look for hospital records at the archives, but they will be disappointed. Hospitals are not government institutions, and have no responsibility for keeping their documents or making them public. Doctors' records can be found there, however. These are often account books, with single pages indicating amounts owed by one family. It is possible to use these records to follow the course of an illness, although the information given is slight.