IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0387 QH
Held at: Barts Health NHS Trust Archives (Royal London Hospital Archives)
Title: Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End
Date(s): 1915-1974
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 13 vols; 3 files
Name of creator(s): Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Founded as West Ham Dispensary in 1861, a Hospital was opened as the West Ham and Eastern General Hospital in 1890. It first extended in 1895 and incorporated by Royal Charter in 1917 as Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End. It was administered as an acute hospital by Newham Health District until its closure with the transfer of acute services to Newham General Hospital, Glen Road, Plaistow.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Registers of probationers/student nurses, registers of staff nurses and sisters, monthly reports on nurses, registers of pupil midwives and miscellaneous nursing records.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
See Scope and content.
Conditions governing access:
Some material is restricted. Please contact the repository in the first instance.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copying and digitisation services are available for unrestricted material. Researchers should contact the repository in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
See 'Detailed catalogue' link above.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from Princess Alexandra and Newham College of Nursing and Midwifery in 1992.
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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: June 2001, updated April 2020.