IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0387 Hospital Journal
Held at: Barts Health NHS Trust Archives (Royal London Hospital Archives)
Title: Hospital Journal
Date(s): 1890-1991
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 5 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Sir Henry Burdett
The British Hospitals Association and The Incorporated Association of Hospital Officers
Institute of Health Service Management
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Hospital was a weekly journal established in 1886 by Sir Henry Burdett, who also edited the title, at first alone and later jointly. From 1888 Burdett also published an annual directory entitled Burdett's hospitals and charities: being the year book of philanthropy and The Hospital annual. From October 1921 The Hospital was published on a monthly basis as The Hospital and Health Review. From 1935, The Hospital was merged with The Hospital Gazette, which itself had been founded in 1905 and was the official organ of The British Hospitals Association and The Incorporated Association of Hospital Officers. Latterly it was published as The Hospital and Health Services Review (from 1972) by the Institute of Health Service Management, London, which also publishes The IHSM Health Services year book. From 1988 the journal was known as Health Services Management.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Comprises:
1. The Hospital: a weekly journal of Science, Medicine, Nursing and Philanthropy, editorial marked files, 1890-1923, containing manuscript annotations on each page identifying contributors to the Journal, with details of their remuneration;
2. The Hospital , incorporating the Hospital Gazette, bound volumes, 1935 - 1971, vols. 1-39 , continued as: The Hospital and Health Service Review, vols. 40-84, 1971 - 1988, vol. 85-87; continued as: Health Services Management, 1989 - 1991 (60 volumes + 60 volumes of duplicates);
3. Sir Henry Burdett [et al.]: Burdett's Hospitals and Charities: being the year book of philanthropy and The Hospital annual: 5th edition, 1894 - 38th edition, 1928;
4. . The Charity Record and Philanthropic News, vols. 1-4, 1881 - 1884 (4 volumes);
5. The Association of Clerks and Stewards of Mental Hospitals Journal, vols 5-17, 1920 - 1930; continues as The Incorporated Association of Clerks and Stewards of Mental Hospitals Journal, vols. 1-10, 1931 - 1942 (6 volumes);
6. Aldridge's Hospital Diary and Buyers's Guide, 1947 - 1953 (7 volumes);
7. Sir Henry Burdett [et al.]: Hospitals and Asylums of the World. vol. 1 Asylums; vol. 2. Asylum construction with plans and bibliography (1891); vol. 4. Hospital construction, with plans and bibliography (1892). J & A Churchill, London.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The journals are arranged chronologically.
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copying and digitisation services are available. Researchers should contact the repository in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Link to online catalogue below.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from the Institute of Health Service Management, London in 1997.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Originally compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Updated by Clare Button, Archivist, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London.
Date(s) of descriptions: July 2001 , updated April 2020.