Catalogue description Danesfield Maternity Home, Jarrow

This record is held by Tyne and Wear Archives

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Reference: HO.DF
Title: Danesfield Maternity Home, Jarrow
Description:

Maternity registers
Date: 1941-1974
Held by: Tyne and Wear Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Danesfield Maternity Home, Jarrow
Physical description: 6 volumes
Immediate source of acquisition:

Accession 2789 (part)
Subjects:
  • Health services
  • Clinical medicine
  • Nursing
  • Patients
  • Health policy
  • Diseases
  • Medical sciences
  • Preventive medicine
Administrative / biographical background:

Danesfield Maternity Home was opened in November 1941 by Jarrow Corporation. The Home was intended to be used for straightforward confinements attended by the patients' GPs. It became part of the National Health Service in 1948 and closed in the mid 1970s.
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