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SAINT LEONARD'S AND SAINT MATTHEW'S HOSPITALS


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): H19

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SAINT LEONARD'S AND SAINT MATTHEW'S HOSPITALS

Date(s): 1879-1986

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 3.53 linear metres

Name of creator(s): St Leonard's Hospital x St Leonard Shoreditch Workhouse Infirmary | 1777 - 1872 x Shoreditch Infirmary | 1872 -1920

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Shoreditch Workhouse and Shoreditch Infirmary (later Saint Leonard's Hospital I) occupied adjoining parts of the same site which stretched from Hoxton Street in the west to Kingsland Road in the east. When the functions of the Boards of Guardians were transferred to the London County Council in 1930, Saint Leonard's Hospital had certified accommodation for 556 patients, while the workhouse (by then known as Saint Leonard's House) had certified accommodation for 424. On 1 April 1938 the L.C.C. completed its policy of removing its hospitals entirely from the ambit of the Poor Law by the appropriation of the remaining six institutions which accommodated chronic sick patients and which were within the curtilages of general hospitals. These included Saint Leonard's Institution which was renamed Saint Leonard's Hospital II to distinguish it from the neighbouring general hospital of the same name, which was to be known as Saint Leonard's Hospital I. By 1948, when Saint Leonard's Hospital became part of the National Health Service as one of the Central Group of hospitals, the two hospitals were being managed as one general hospital, much reduced in size.

Saint Matthew's Hospital was built in 1873 as City Road Workhouse by Holborn Board of Guardians on the site of Saint Luke's Workhouse. By 1930 when it was taken over by the London County Council, it had become known as Holborn and Finsbury Institution. The London County Council decided to use it as a hospital for the care of the chronic sick and renamed it Saint Matthew's Hospital in 1936. In 1948 Saint Matthew's Hospital became part of the National Health Service as one of the Central Group of Hospitals of the North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. In 1974 Saint Matthew's Hospital became part of Tower Hamlets Health District (Teaching) of the City and East London Area Heath Authority. The hospital closed in 1986.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Saint Leonard's Hospital, 1884-1940 and Saint Matthew's Hospital, 1879-1986. Papers include patient registers, minutes, reports, inventories, plans and staff records.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

H19/SL: Saint Leonard's Hospital and H19/SM: Saint Matthew's Hospital.

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: 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:

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received in multiple accessions between 1986 and 1992 (ACC/2299, ACC/2649, ACC/3105).

ALLIED MATERIALS

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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
Hospital administration | Hospitals | Health services
Hospital patients | People by roles | People
Medical history | Personal history | History
Medical institutions

Personal names

Corporate names
St Leonard's Hospital x St Leonard Shoreditch Workhouse Infirmary | 1777-1872 x Shoreditch Infirmary | 1872-1920
St Matthew's Hospital x Holborn and Finsbury Workhouse | 1870-1916 x Holborn and Finsbury Institution | 1916-1936

Places
Shoreditch | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Hackney