IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0387 GE
Held at: Barts Health NHS Trust Archives (Royal London Hospital Archives)
Title: St George in the East Hospital
Date(s): [1930s]-1956
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume; 10 postcards
Name of creator(s): St George in the East Hospital
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
St George in the East Hospital was erected in 1871 by the Board of Guardians, under the provisions of the Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867. A Nurse Training School was established in 1893. In 1930, when it passed to the London County Council, it had 406 beds.With the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948 the Hospital was transferred to the Stepney Group Hospital Management Committee. The Hospital was closed in September 1956.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Minutes of the House Committee and photographic postcards.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
See Scope and content.
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copying and digitisation services are available for unrestricted material. Researchers should contact the repository in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
See 'Detailed catalogue' link above.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The minutes were transferred from the Public Record Office in 1985. The postcards were transferred from the Broadley Postcard Collection.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Originally compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Updated by Clare Button, Archivist, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London.
Date(s) of descriptions: June 2001, updated April 2020.