Catalogue description SANDLEFORD HOSPITAL RECORDS

Records of Sandleford Hospital, 1948-1959, and of Newbury Union Workhouse, 1926-1948

RECORDS OF PATIENTS: admission and discharge books, 1947-1949, 1958-1959; registers of patients, 1948-1949; register of nights in hospital, 1947-1949; medical officer's examination book, 1926-1950; casualty examination book, 1948; maternity admission register, 1952; register of births, 1947-1951; register of deaths, 1943-1951.

ADMINISTRATION: cash accounts, 1947-1948; day books, 1948-1950; stock books, 1934-1949; clothing accounts, 1946-1949; provisions accounts, 1941-1949; officers' ration accounts, 1946-1949; register of staff meals, 1950-1951; chaplain's reports, 1945-1952; staff duty register, 1948-1949; NHS circulars, 1948; notices, 1950-1952; night security report book, 1952.

POOR RELIEF: casual ward admission and discharge books, 1947-1950; summaries, 1949-1956; indoor relief list, 1947-1949.

Records in other collections

D/H 4/6/5-13 Newbury no. 4 area house committee minutes [general management] 1948-1969

D/H 4/14/1 Visitors' reports. 1969-1974

Sandleford Hospital, Berkshire

Deposited in July 1991 (acc. 4828 part); in September 1996 (accs. 5878 part and 5879).

Acc. 4828: 2/1-2; 3/2; 6/1; 7/2-3, 9, 10; 8/1; 9/2-3.

Acc. 5878: 3/1.

Acc. 5879: 1/1-3; 2/3; 4/1; 5/1; 6/2-3; 7/1, 4-8, 11; 9/1, 4; 10/1-3.

• Health services

Sandleford Hospital was established in 1948, using the buildings of the former Newbury Union Workhouse (see G/N).

It was run in conjunction with the Newbury District Hospital (see D/H 4), but in its first years also continued to have a role in the administering of poor relief, particularly for vagrants. (See Land, Lowe & Whiteside, The Development of the Welfare State (HMSO 1992), p. 35.)

Records dating from before 1948 originate from the Poor Law Institution.

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