IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): H09/HDS
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE SKIN
Date(s): 1842-1945
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 0.55 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Hospital for Diseases of the Skin x London Infirmary for the Cure of Diseases of the Skin x London Cutaneous Institution for the treatment and cure of non infectious Diseases of the Skin
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The London Infirmary for the Cure of Diseases of the Skin was established in 1841. It was based at 84 London Wall. In 1844 the name was changed to the London Cutaneous Institution for the treatment and cure of non infectious Diseases of the Skin and the Hospital moved to 25 Bridge Street, Blackfriars. Finally from March 1850 it became The Hospital for Diseases of the Skin.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, including Committee of Management minutes, 1842-1907; financial records, 1881-1945 and papers relating to endowments, 1886-1914.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The records are arranged in three sections according to a classification scheme for hospital records: Minutes and General Administration (A), Finance and Accounts (D) and Endowments (E).
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
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Archival history:
The records of the Hospital for Diseases of the Skin have been arranged with those of the Guy's Hospital Group, although it was never part of the Group. They were deposited with the records of Guy's Hospital Group, long after the Hospital had closed down, and therefore may have been in the custody of Guy's Hospital for a number of years. In 1965 the Bermondsey and Southwark Hospital Management Committee was dissolved and Guy's Hospital took over the remaining Hospitals which had been administered by it. The Hospital for Diseases of the Skin had been one of those hospitals until its closure in 1953, so it is possible that its records were inherited by Guy's when it assumed responsibility for previous Bermondsey and Southwark hospitals, and deposited amongst its own records.
Immediate source of acquisition:
ACC/1656
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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: February 2009