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Royal College of Physicians

Deptford (Infectious Diseases) Hospital


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0113 MS-DEPTH

Held at: Royal College of Physicians

Title: Deptford (Infectious Diseases) Hospital

Date(s): 1877-1892

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 3 items

Name of creator(s): Deptford Hospital

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Deptford Hospital, Avonley Road, Deptford, was opened on 17 March 1877, by the Metropolitan Asylums Board for admission of pauper patients with smallpox. By 1881, the epidemic was over, but it remained a fever hospital up until 1941. It became the South Eastern Fever Hospital in 1885 and then New Cross General Hospital in 1949. Since c 1964 it was known as New Cross Hospital. It closed c 1991.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Case books 1877, and post-mortem reports, Deptford Hospital, 1890-1892.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As oulined in the Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open for consultation, unless otherwise indicated.

Conditions governing reproduction:

All requests should be referred to the Archivist.

Finding aids:

Available at the Royal College of Physicians.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Provenance of the collection is unknown.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited by Sarah Drewery.

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: Aug 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Hospitals | Health services
Medical records | Documents | Information sources
Postmortems | Medical procedures | Medical sciences
Medical institutions
Primary documents

Personal names

Corporate names
New Cross Hospital | Deptford

Places