IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): H58/SL
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL, CHELSEA
Date(s): 1900-1941
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.28 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Saint Luke's Hospital | Chelsea x Saint Luke's Workhouse
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
A workhouse for St Luke's Parish, Chelsea, was first constructed in 1737. An infirmary was added in 1872. In 1930 the workhouse was taken over by the London County Council, while in 1948 it became part of the new National Health Service (NHS) as Saint Luke's Hospital, Chelsea. It was managed by the South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board and the Chelsea and Kensington Hospital Management Committee. Saint Luke's was closed in 1974.
Source of information: Peter Higginbotham at The Workhouse website.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Saint Luke's Hospital, Chelsea, comprising registers of probationer nurses and certificates, rosettes and medals from the London Garden Society Awards.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
These records are arranged according to a classification scheme for hospital records: General Hospital Administration (A), Patients' Administration (B), Finance Office (D), Endowments (E), Related Documentation (Y) and Prints and Photographs (PH).
Conditions governing access:
These records are open to public inspection, although under section 5(4) of the 1958 Public Records Act administrative records are closed for 30 years and patient records for 100 years.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright: Depositor
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
B02/050, B08/083
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
See also Chelsea Board of Guardians Ch.B.G., London County Council Central Public Health committee 1929 - 1934, Hospitals and Medical Services committee 1934 - 1948, London county Council Public Health, General and Special Hospitals Committee PH/HOSP/3.
Publication note:
For further information regarding the Saint Luke's Workhouse please see website The Workhouse at http://www.workhouses.org.uk.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: February 2009