Catalogue description Bushey Maternity Hospital

For the administration of the hospital 1937-1948, readers should consult the records of Middlesex County Council. The printed annual volumes of County Council of Middlesex Reports, available on the open shelves in the Greater London History Library, contain reports of the Public Health Committee 1930-1948 and annual reports of the Medical Officer of Health for 1930-1937 and 1939-1946. The Greater London Record Office holds the minutes of the Middlesex County Council Public Health Committee and of its Central Hospitals and Institutions Sub-Committee. These may at present be consulted by prior arrangement only. For the history of the hospital 1948-1974 readers should consult the records of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board (reference HA/NW).

For annual reports on the work of the hospital for 1938 and 1939/40 see the annual reports of the medical director of Redhill County Hospital in the Greater London History Library (reference 26.15 RED). For 1949-1970 see H16/HG/A/12/001-017. For clinical reports for 1973 and 1974 see H16/EDG/A/01/015-016.

Middlesex County Maternity Hopsital, 1938-1948

Bushey Maternity Hospital, 1948-c1977

Records of Bushey Maternity Hospital, formerly Middlesex County Maternity Hospital, transferred to the Greater London Record Office, 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R OHB, by the Patients Services Officer, Edgware General Hospital, Barnet Health Authority, 27 August 1986 (Acc 2314)

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• Maternal and child health

In 1937 Middlesex County Council acquired a newly built private clinic in Heathbourne Road, Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire to be used as a maternity hospital. It opened on 1 January 1938 with 48 beds as Middlesex County Maternity Hospital. It was administered from Redhill County Hospital, now Edgware General Hospital. In 1948 it became part of the National Health Service as one of the Hendon Group of hospitals of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. The name of the hospital was changed to Bushey Maternity Hospital. The hospital closed in c.1977.

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