IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): H16/BM
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: BUSHEY MATERNITY HOSPITAL
Date(s): 1938-1959
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 3.97 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Bushey Maternity Hospital x Middlesex County Maternity Hospital | 1938-1948
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
In 1937 Middlesex County Council acquired a newly built private clinic in Heathbourne Road, Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire to be used as a maternity hospital. It opened on 1 January 1938 with 48 beds as Middlesex County Maternity Hospital. It was administered from Redhill County Hospital, now Edgware General Hospital. In 1948 it became part of the National Health Service as one of the Hendon Group of hospitals of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. The name of the hospital was changed to Bushey Maternity Hospital. The hospital closed in 1977.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Bushey Maternity Hospital, Hertfordshire, comprising admission and discharge registers, 1938-1939 and 1946; registers of confinements, 1945-1959; maternity case books, 1939-1958 and case books for women who were admitted to hospital during pregnancy but were discharged before delivery or who were admitted to hospital for treatment after childbirth, 1938-1959.
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:
Records of Bushey Maternity Hospital, formerly Middlesex County Maternity Hospital, transferred to the Greater London Record Office by the Patients Services Officer, Edgware General Hospital, Barnet Health Authority, 27 August 1986 (Acc 2314).
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: February 2009