Catalogue description UPTON HOSPITAL (SLOUGH) RECORDS

Records of Upton Hospital, Slough, 1945-1988

MEDICAL RECORDS: admission and discharge books, Part III accommodation, 1948-1950; admission and discharge books (general), 1949-1952, ward admission and discharge books, male patients, 1957-1966, female patients, 1964-1972, and female gynaecological cases, 1967-1969; registers of patients, 1960-1988; registers of operations, 1948-1954, 1959-1977; register of minor operations, 1947-1950, register of ENT operations, 1964-1966; registers of midwifery cases, 1949-1952; registers of births, 1949-1955; register of deaths, 1951-1956.

MISCELLANEOUS: register of baptisms, 1972-1977.

SLOUGH POOR LAW INSTITUTION RECORDS: porter's admission and discharge book, 1945-1946.

Upton Hospital, Berkshire

Deposited in August 1997 (acc. 6086).

Acc. 6086: 1/1-17; 2/1-6; 3/1-26; 4/1-4; 5/1; 6/1

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Upton Hospital occupied the building formerly used as the workhouse for Eton Union, and from 1930 as Slough Poor Law Institution. During the Second World War it was used as an emergency hospital for both soldiers and civilians. Records for the earlier use of the building are held at Buckinghamshire Record Office.

In 1948 the hospital was established as part of the nascent National Health Service.

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