IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): H55/WIN
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: WINIFRED HOUSE INVALID CHILDREN'S CONVALESCENT HOME, BARNET
Date(s): 1886-1972
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.48 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Winifred House Invalid Children's Nursing Home x Mrs Hampson's Memorial Home
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Winifred House Invalid Children's Nursing Home was founded in 1890 at Wray Crescent, Tollington Park, London. It had 20 beds for invalid children recovering from disease after treatment in hospital or at home. It was originally known as Mrs Hampson's Memorial Home and moved to Barnet around 1937.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Winifred House Invalid Children's Nursing Home comprising Admission and Discharge register, 1906-1923; records of nursing staff, 1939-1972 and financial records consisting of receipts and payments, weekly accounts, staff accounts, patient accounts and register of donors and subscribers, 1886-1958.
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 under section 5(4) of the 1958 Public Records Act administrative records are closed for 30 years and patient records for 100 years.
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
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Material accessioned in 1999 (B99/121).
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