Catalogue description Records of the Boston General Hospital

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Details of HOSP/BOSTON
Reference: HOSP/BOSTON
Title: Records of the Boston General Hospital
Description:

Records of the Boston General Hospital.
Date: 1871 - 1952
Arrangement:

SUMMARY

 

HOSP/BOSTON1. Minute Books.

 

HOSP/BOSTON2. Financial Records.

 

HOSP/BOSTON3. Printed Material.

 

HOSP/BOSTON4. Photographs.
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Boston Cottage Hospital, 1871-c1887

Boston Hospital, c1887-c1937

Boston General Hospital, c1937-c1971
Physical description: 28 files
Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board, Boston Group Management Committee on 31 October 1967. (Acc 1967/106.1.)
Subjects:
  • Health services
Administrative / biographical background:

The Hospital was established in 1871 in temporary premises as the Boston Cottage Hospital. A new building was erected in 1874 and subsequently extended on several occasions. The name was changed to Boston Hospital, c1887, and Boston General Hospital, c1937. The Hospital was administered from 1948 by the Boston Group Hospital Management Committee of the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board. The Hospital was replaced by the new Boston Pilgrim Hospital, opened in 1971.

 

The County of Holland Joint Hospital Board was established by the Ministry of Health c1935, and administered Boston Hospital, Boston Isolation Hospital and Fleet Smallpox Hospital until the formation of the National Health service in 1948.
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