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Records of Hospitals / St Thomas' Hospital Group (HO1/ ST)

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA
Reference code(s): H1
Title: Records of Hospitals / St Thomas' Hospital Group (HO1/ ST)
Date(s): -
Level of description: Fonds
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CONTEXT AREA
Name of creator(s): London County Council
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CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA
Scope and content: Collection includes the following:

  • The records Grosvenor Hospital
  • The General Lying -in hospital
  • Lambeth Hospital
  • Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women
  • St Thomas Hospital: Administration, patients, Matron's Office and nursing staff, Finance and Endowments, Hospital deeds, Legal papers, social work department, Archivists papers and library material, Friends of the St Thomas' Hospital, Miscellaneous, Appendices and card indexed
  • St Thomas' Children's Psychiatric Day hospital (formerly St Thomas' Baby Hostel)
  • The Florence Nightingale Collection (including Bonham-Carter Papers. Also included is and index to Boham - Carter correspondence, Florence Nightingale Prints and photographs, and Florence Nightingale Training School. Records also cover St Thomas' Church and parish, Hospital Physiotherapy School, St John's House (nursing school), St John's and St Thomas' House (residential club for medical officers and students, founded after the First World War),as well as St Thomas' Home (for private paying patients), St Thomas' Hospital (Prints and Photographs) and T.C.Noble Papers (papers relating to the St Thomas' hospital 1697 - c1883).

    Records of note in the St Thomas Hospital Group of records include the following:

  • Children's Hospital (ref: H1/ST/CH/A3/1, 1925-1940)

    The hostel treated babies suffering from malnutrition or eating disorders. The pamphlets outline the history and development of the hostel, as well as charting the steps taken to keep the hostel open during this period. Related records include a picture of a small, black child (HI/ST/CH/Z1/3/12)

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    CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE AREA
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    Language/scripts of material: English
    Physical characteristics:
    Finding aids: LMA information Leaflet No 13 Hospital Records

    ALLIED MATERIALS AREA
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    DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA
    Recorder's note:
    Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
    Date(s) of descriptions: June 2000

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    INDEX ENTRIES
    Subjects
    Black peoples
    Hospitals

    Personal/Corporate names
    St Thomas Hospital

    Places
    London, United Kingdom

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