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EVELINA HOSPITAL: ELEANOR WEMYSS HOME


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): H09/EV/EWH

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: EVELINA HOSPITAL: ELEANOR WEMYSS HOME

Date(s): 1931 - 1948

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 0.2 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Eleanor Wemyss Convalescent Home | Evelina Hospital for Sick Children

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Eleanor Wemyss Convalescent Home of the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children was opened in 1931. The building, at Crazies Hill, Wargrave-on-Thames, near Henley had been donated in 1928 by Sir Campbell Rhodes, Chairman of the Evelina Hospital for Children, in memory of his wife Eleanor Wemyss who died in 1921. The Evelina Hospital assumed full financial responsibility for the Home in 1934. It had been regular practice for the Evelina to send its patients away to convalesce since 1880, when a Convalescent Fund was set up.

The Home was retained when the Evelina amalgamated with Guy's Hospital in 1948, but was eventually closed in July 1962.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Eleanor Wemyss Home, Evelina Hospital, comprising committee minutes, 1931-1939; financial ledger, 1942-1945; Children's Fund cash book, 1939-1948 and photograph album, 1931-1939.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The records are arranged in three sections: minute books and general administration (A), finance and accounts (D) and photographs and prints (ph).

Conditions governing access:

Some closures on patients records for 100 years and on some other records which are under 30 years old.

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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Publication note:

The Evelina. The Story of a London Children's Hospital 1869 - 1969 by H E Priestly M A, PhD

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
Child health services | Health services
Convalescent homes | Residential care homes | Housing | Accommodation | Building standards | Building design | Construction engineering
Hospital administration | Hospitals | Health services
Hospital patients | People by roles | People
Medical history | Personal history | History
Medical institutions

Personal names
Rhodes | Eleanor Wemyss | d 1921 | wife of Sir Campbell Rhodes
Rhodes | Sir | Campbell | 1874-1941 | Knight | businessman and philanthropist

Corporate names
Eleanor Wemyss Convalescent Home | Evelina Hospital for Sick Children

Places
Hertfordshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Wargrave-on-Thames | Henley-on-Thames | Berkshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Oxfordshire