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Stepney (No 7) Group Hospital Management Committee


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0387 SG

Held at: Barts Health NHS Trust Archives (Royal London Hospital Archives)

Title: Stepney (No 7) Group Hospital Management Committee

Date(s): 1948-1968

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 5 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Stepney (No 7) Group Hospital Management Committee

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

This Committee was established by the North East Metropolitan Hospitals Board on the introduction of the National Health Service in July 1948. The Group consisted of the East End Maternity Hospital, the London Jewish Hospital, Mile End Hospital and St. George's-in-the-East Hospital, together with several clinics. St. George's-in-the-East was closed in September 1956. The Committee was dissolved in 1966 on the formation of the East London Group.
[In 1836 the parish of St George-in-the-East became a Poor Law parish, administered by 18 elected Guardians, who took over the workhouse between Prusom Street and Princes Street (later renamed Raine Street) which had been built about ten years earlier. In 1844 the workhouse was extended and, in 1871, an infirmary was added. In 1893 a Nurse Training School was established at the Infirmary. During WW1 patients were transferred to the St-George-in-the-East Infirmary from the Bethnal Green Hospital, when the military authorities took over the latter for the use of wounded servicemen. In 1925 the parish of St George-in-the-East joined the Stepney Poor Law Union. In 1930 the LCC took over control of the workhouse building and converted it into the St-George-in-the-East Hospital, with 406 beds. In 1948 the Hospital joined the NHS under the Stepney Group Hospital Management Committee, part of the North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, but no records of the hospital are known to exist].

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Minutes of Management Committee, Establishment Committee, Works Committee, Nursing Committee; Secretary's files.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

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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:

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Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from the Public Records Office in 1985.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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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.

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: June 2001, updated April 2020.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Administration | Organisation and management
Health policy | Health
Hospitals | Health services
Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Nursing | Medical sciences
Surgery | Medical sciences
Management
Medical institutions
Personnel
Social sciences
Social welfare

Personal names

Corporate names
East End Maternity Hospital
London Jewish Hospital
Mile End Hospital
National Health Service
St George in the East Hospital
Stepney (No 7) Group Hospital Management Committee

Places