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DARTFORD AND DARENTH HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 H66

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: DARTFORD AND DARENTH HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

Date(s): 1949-1974

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2.3 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Dartford and Darenth Hospital Management Committee

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Following April 1948 Darenth and Stone Hospital Management Committee was set up as part of the transferral programme of hospitals into the newly created National Health Service (NHS). The hospitals in the group were Stone House Hospital (formerly City of London Mental Hospital), Darenth Park Hospital and Mabledon Hospital.

Re-organisation of the Heath Service in June 1971 led to the amalgamation of Stone House and Mabledon and Darenth Park with the Dartford Hospital Management Committee, to form the Dartford and Darenth Hospital Management Committee. The committee also managed other hospitals including Joyce Green Hospital, Orchard Hospital and Lower Southern Hospital.

The Committee reported to South East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. In 1974, Dartford and Gravesham District Health Authority took over control within South East Thames Regional Health Authority.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Dartford and Darenth Hospital Management Committee, including Committee and sub-committee minutes (1949-1974), Darenth Park Hospital annual reports submitted to Committee (1957-1959), Secretary's files, photographs and booklet.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in the following sections: H66/A - ADMINISTRATION; H66/PH - PHOTOGRAPHS; H66/Y - RELATED DOCUMENTATION.

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 to this collection rests with the depositor.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Records deposited in 2007 and 2010.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

See South East Thames Regional Health Authority (HA/SE); City of London Mental Hospital, later Stone House Hospital (CLA/001); Darenth Park Hospital (H61/DA); Joyce Green Hospital (H48); Southern Hospital (H62/SH). Also other group hospitals held at Centre for Kentish Studies.

DESCRIPTION NOTES 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: August to October 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Hospital administration | Hospitals | Health services
Hospital management | Hospitals | Health services
Medical institutions

Personal names

Corporate names
Darenth Park Hospital x Darenth Asylum and Schools | 1878-1913 x Darenth Industrial Colony | 1913-1920 x Darenth Training Colony | 1920-1937
Dartford and Darenth Hospital Management Committee
Mabledon Hospital | Kent
Stone House x City of London Mental Hospital x City of London Mental Asylum

Places
Dartford | Kent | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe