Catalogue description Records of the WATERMOOR HOSPITAL, CIRENCESTER

This record is held by Gloucestershire Archives

Details of HO 49
Reference: HO 49
Title: Records of the WATERMOOR HOSPITAL, CIRENCESTER
Held by: Gloucestershire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Watermoor Hospital, Cirencester
Immediate source of acquisition:

(Acc. 4440)

 

Deposited by the Cheltenham District Health Authority, 26 April 1982.
Subjects:
  • Health services
Administrative / biographical background:

The Watermoor Hospital began life as a poor law institution, and for records before 1930 see G/CI. After 1935, the building became a county Public Assistance Institution (see CWg/M3/1-4 for the minutes during this period), and not until 1948 was it transferred to the National Health Service for use as a hospital. The records listed below relate both to Watermoor Hospital as a P.A.I. and as a hospital
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