IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): H03/OLA
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SAINT OLAVE'S HOSPITAL
Date(s): 1857-1959
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 10.4 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Saint Olave's Hospital
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The earlier records listed for Saint Olave's Hospital relate to Rotherhithe Workhouse which was situated on the site of the present Saint Olave's hospital. According to the Vestry minute book (held at Newington District Library) for Saint Mary's Rotherhithe the workhouse was in the course of erection in 1729. Rocque's map published in 1746 has an unmarked building in Deptford Lower Road (renamed Lower Road in 1888) and this same building is marked 'Workhouse' on Horwood's map of 1799. Rotherhithe workhouse was administered by Rotherhithe parish until 1836 and from 1836-1869 by Saint Mary Rotherhithe Board of Guardians. In 1869 it became part of Saint Olave's Union. There was a rearrangement of the workhouse accomodation of Saint Olave's Union in 1869-1870 and Rotherhithe Workhouse was appropriated for able-bodied males. In 1889 the Workhouse was described as 'dilapidated and disused' (Minutes of Saint Olave Board of Guardians, ref. BBG/56).
The majority of the records listed under Saint Olave's Hospital relate to Rotherhithe Infirmary, built in the early 1870's on ground adjoining Rotherhithe Workhouse on Deptford Lower Road. It became the Infirmary of Saint Olave's Union by Order of the Local Government Board on 31 August 1875. In the 1920s it was known as the Bermonsey and Rotherhithe Hospital. On 1 April 1930 the hospital was transferred from the Bermonsey Board of Guardians to the London County Council and renamed Saint Olave's Hospital. It was administered by the London County Council from 1930 until 5 July 1948 when the National Health Service came into being. From 1948 Saint Olave's was administered by the Bermondsey and Southwark Hospital Management Committee under the South East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, until 1966 when it became part of the Guy's Hospital Teaching Group. Following the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 St Olave's was administered by the South East Thames Regional Health Authority. Saint Olave's Hospital started to be restricted in 1970 and finally closed in 1984. All that now remains is Saint Olave's House, a nursing home which is part of the South London Family Housing Association Group.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Rotherhithe Workhouse comprising admission and discharge registers, 1857-1889.
Records of St Olave's Hospital including admission and discharge registers, 1876-1949; admission and discharge registers: receiving and mental wards, 1923-1927; registers of admission, discharge and transfer to workhouses, 1902-1906; admission, discharge and creed registers, 1933-1943; creed registers, 1892-1932; birth register, 1942-1954; death registers, 1935-1959; in-patient statistics, 1950-1958; registers of operations, 1948-1979; casualty registers, 1966-1979; minutes, 1950-1971; case notes, 1925-1943; nursing records, 1943-1959; laboratory registers, 1943-1979 and mortuary books and post-mortem registers, 1956-1979.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
These records are arranged in two sections. Records relating to Rotherhithe Workhouse (I) and records relating to Rotherhithe Infirmary and its successors (II).
Conditions governing access:
These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.
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:
AC/74/068, ACC/1684
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
For other records of the Workhouse consult the records of Bermondsey Board of Guardians (ref. BBG) and the Saint Mary Rotherhithe Vestry Minutes at Newington Reference Library.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: February 2009