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London Metropolitan Archives

TOOTING BEC HOSPITAL


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): H45/TBH

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: TOOTING BEC HOSPITAL

Date(s): 1902-1995

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 5.53 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Tooting Bec Hospital

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Tooting Bec Asylum was established in 1903 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board. It was built to relieve pressure on Leavesden and Caterham Asylums which had resulted in adults being admitted to Darenth Schools. The location was specifically intended for older patients to be nearer family and friends. The first phase, which accommodated about 1,000 patients, was followed by a second phase of an extra 900 beds which eventually opened in 1925. After 1930 the LCC ran the hospital until 1948 and the establishment of the National Health Service. The Hospital was closed in July 1995. The service and additional records were later inherited by the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust (as of 2005).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Tooting Bec Hospital, including Hospital management committee and sub-committee minutes and papers, 1948-1967; London County Council Tooting Bec Hospital sub committee papers, 1907-1948; Medical Superintendants report book, 1903-1911; Steward's report books, 1912-1948; admission and discharge books, 1930-1936; register of admission (male and female), 1948-1954; register of admission (male), 1936-1951; register of admission (female), 1936-1949 and 1957-1961; register of transfers, discharges and deaths (male), 1936-1962; register of transfers, discharges and deaths (female), 1936-1950 and 1962-1964; register of male patients, 1973-1977; creed register, 1938-1947; registers of deaths, 1944-1963; post mortem registers, 1932-1959; card index of patient deaths, 1960-1980; registers of staff, 1902-1909 and 1930-1965 and The History of Tooting Bec Hospital by Sue Simmons, 1995.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

These records are arranged according to a classification scheme for hospital records: General Hospital Administration (A), Patients' Administration (B), Finance Office (D), Endowments (E), Related Documentation (Y) and Prints and Photographs (PH).

Conditions governing access:

These records are open to public inspection, although records containing personal and medical information concerning living individuals may be subject to access restrictions under the Data Protection Act.

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

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

ACC/3723, B97/119, B99/038, B02/003

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Publication note:

The History of Tooting Bec Hospital by Sue Simmons, 1995.

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Care for the elderly | Care | Health services
Hospital administration | Hospitals | Health services
Hospital patients | People by roles | People
Medical history | Personal history | History
Mentally disabled | Disabled persons | Disadvantaged groups
Psychiatric hospitals | Hospitals | Health services
Medical institutions

Personal names

Corporate names
Metropolitan Asylums Board
Tooting Bec Hospital x Tooting Bec Asylum

Places
Hertfordshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Tooting Bec | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe