IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1510 BAH
Held at: Royal Veterinary College
Title: Beaumont Animals' Hospital Clinical Day Books
Date(s): 1934-1964
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 134 volumes
Name of creator(s): Beaumont Animals' Hospital
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Beaumont Animals' Hospital of the Royal Veterinary College (RVC)was opened in 1933 in Camden as a small animal practice for undergraduate teaching. Building work had started the previous year in 1932. £25,000 came from the will of a wealthy Yorkshire lady - Mrs Sarah Martin Grove-Grady, the daughter of J Beaumont of Huddersfield and the rest of the money (£225,000) was raised, much of it in copper coins given by local people. The hospital was kept open during the Second World War when the rest of the College was evacuated. The small animal referral and equine work moved to the RVC Potters Bar site in 1958. The Beaumont remained in Camden as the RVC's general practice.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Clinical day books of the Beaumont Animal Hospital recording patients at the 'Free Out Patients Clinics', 1934-1964, detailing type and age of the animal, medical history, symptoms and treatment.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Chronological.
Conditions governing access:
Open by appointment only.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies available at the discretion of the Archivist.
Finding aids:
Detailed catalogue on-line on the Royal Veterinary College library catalogue.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Received from Camden, 2007.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: http://www.rvc.ac.uk/Hospitals/BAH/BeaumontHistory.cfm
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: Oct 2008