IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GOS/7
Held at: Great Ormond Street Hospital Archives
Title: Visitors' Records
Date(s): 1852-1978
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 13 volumes
Name of creator(s): Great Ormond Street Hospital
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children was founded on its Bloomsbury site in 1852, as the Hospital for Sick Children. It became part of the National Health Service in 1948.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Great Ormond Street Visitors' Books, GOS/7/1/1-7, covering 1852-1956; GOS/7/1/8 Visitors' Book (for major events and Royal and political Visitors), 1952-1978; GOS/7/1/9, Visitors' Book for South Wing Foundation Stone Ceremony, 1890, with notes on the occasion by Charles Barry Junior, Architect.
Visiting Governor's Reports, GOS/7/2/1-4, 1852-1962.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
13 volumes, arranged chronologically.
Conditions governing access:
The records are open for research.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopying and photography of the records permitted at the discretion of the archivist.
Finding aids:
The archive catalogue is available on the Museum and Archives Service computer, and in typescript form.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Great Ormond Street Hospital
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Publication note:
Andrea Tanner, The Role of the Hospital Visitor at a Victorian Children's Hospital, in Graham Mooney and J.onathan Reinarz (eds) Permeable Walls: Historical Perspectives on hospital visiting', Clio Medica. (Amsterdam, 2009).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entered by Andrea Tanner
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2010