GORDON HOSPITAL

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: H02/GH
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: GORDON HOSPITAL
Date(s)	: 1884-1961
Level of description	: subfonds View parent record
Extent	: 2.21 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Gordon Hospital | 1941- x Western Hospital for Fistula, Piles and Other Diseases of the Rectum | 1884-1886 x Gordon Hospital for Rectal Diseases | 1911-1939 x Gordon Hospital for Diseases of the Rectum and Colon | 1939-1941

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Gordon Hospital has undergone a series of name changes since its opening in June 1884. Originally named the Western Hospital for Fistula, Piles and Other Diseases of the Rectum in 1884, it changed its name to the Gordon Hospital for Fistula, Piles and Other Diseases of the Rectum in 1886, Gordon Hospital for Rectal Diseases in 1911, and the Gordon Hospital for Diseases of the Rectum and Colon in 1939. It finally became the Gordon Hospital in 1941.

The hospital opened in a house in Vauxhall Bridge Road but moved to a purpose-built site, in the same road, in 1899. It was rebuilt in 1947.

In 1948 the hospital merged with the Westminster Hospital as a result of the changes instituted by the new National Health Service. It was subsequently part of the South West Metropolitan Region. In 1974 the Westminster group formed part of the North West Thames Regional Health Authority and the South (Teaching) Health District. In 1982 it became part of the Riverside District Health Authority.

On 1st April 1999 the Gordon Hospital became part of Brent, Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust, formed from North West London Mental Health NHS Trust, half of Riverside Mental Health NHS Trust and the mental health component of Parkside Health NHS Trust.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Gordon Hospital, including Management, General, Finance and Executive Committee agendas and minutes, 1884-1948; House Committee agendas, minutes and reports, 1935-1968; Medical Committee minutes, 1899-1967; Vincent Square Laboratories Committee minutes, 1955-1961; Annual reports, 1885-1947; register of female clerical and paramedical staff, 1920-1950; property records, 1897-1965; registers of patients, 1937-1958; admission books, 1937-1949; financial records, 1947-1957; register of members of the Hospital Association, 1922-1947; history of hospital, 1967; photographs of hospital, 1960 and correspondence, cuttings and photographs of 'Pound Day' and post-war re-opening ceremony, 1938-1947.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The records are arranged as follows: A = Administration, B = Patients' records, D = Financial records, R = Hospital Association, Y = Related documentation.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: Depositor.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

AC/71/071, AC/75/001, AC/2152/2.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's 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