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CENTRAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): H47/CL

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: CENTRAL LONDON OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL

Date(s): 1938-1942

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 0.01 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Central London Ophthalmic Hospital xx Moorfields Eye Hospital

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Central London Ophthalmic Hospital was established in Judd Street in 1843. It was amalgamated with Moorfields Eye Hospital in 1945. For information relating to the Hospital after 1948 see Moorfields Eye Hospital (H47/MR).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital comprising annual reports, 1938-1942.

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

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

ACC/3771 and B97/080

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

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Related material:

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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
History of medicine | History
Hospital administration | Hospitals | Health services
Medical history | Personal history | History
Ophthalmology | Medical sciences
Medical institutions

Personal names

Corporate names
Central London Ophthalmic Hospital x Moorfields Eye Hospital

Places
Bloomsbury | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Holborn | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Camden
Camden