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Great Ormond Street Hospital Archives

Visitors' Records


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GOS/7

Held at: Great Ormond Street Hospital Archives

Title: Visitors' Records

Date(s): 1852-1978

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 13 volumes

Name of creator(s): Great Ormond Street Hospital

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children was founded on its Bloomsbury site in 1852, as the Hospital for Sick Children. It became part of the National Health Service in 1948.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Great Ormond Street Visitors' Books, GOS/7/1/1-7, covering 1852-1956; GOS/7/1/8 Visitors' Book (for major events and Royal and political Visitors), 1952-1978; GOS/7/1/9, Visitors' Book for South Wing Foundation Stone Ceremony, 1890, with notes on the occasion by Charles Barry Junior, Architect.

Visiting Governor's Reports, GOS/7/2/1-4, 1852-1962.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

13 volumes, arranged chronologically.

Conditions governing access:

The records are open for research.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopying and photography of the records permitted at the discretion of the archivist.

Finding aids:

The archive catalogue is available on the Museum and Archives Service computer, and in typescript form.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Great Ormond Street Hospital

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Publication note:

Andrea Tanner, The Role of the Hospital Visitor at a Victorian Children's Hospital, in Graham Mooney and J.onathan Reinarz (eds) Permeable Walls: Historical Perspectives on hospital visiting', Clio Medica. (Amsterdam, 2009).

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entered by Andrea Tanner

Date(s) of descriptions: November 2010


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Hospital administration | Hospitals | Health services
Paediatrics | Medical sciences
Medical institutions

Personal names

Corporate names
Great Ormond Street Hospital x Hospital for Sick Children | Great Ormond Street x Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust x The Hospital for Sick Children x The Hospital for Children

Places