Catalogue description Princess Mary Maternity Hospital formerly the Lying-in Hospital, Newcastle

Administration

HO.PM/1/1-18 Minutes 1760 - 1945 From 1760 to 1822 weekly court minutes, to 1900 also House Committee minutes, from 1900 also Finance Committee and Management Committee minutes.

(18 volumes, 27 papers)

HO.PM/2 Charity for the Relief of Poor Women Lying-in at Their Own Homes, minutes 1787 - 1858

Lying-in hospital House Committee minutes, 1859

(1 volume)

HO.PM/3/1-3 Medical Staff meetings minutes, 1917 - 1951

(3 volumes)

HO.PM/45 Honorary medical staff meetings minutes, 1935 - 1949

(1 volume)

HO.PM/4 House Committee minutes, 1949 - 1971

(1 volume)

HO.PM/5 £20,000 Extension appeal sub-committee minutes, 1923 - 1924

(1 volume)

HO.PM/57/1-6 Perinatal reports, 1979 - 1985

(6 booklets)

Financial

HO.PM/6/1-5 Accounts, 1760 - 1928

(5 volumes)

HO.PM/7/1-17 Reports of the state of the Lying-in Hospital including abstracts of accounts, 1771 - 1806

(17 papers)

HO.PM/8 Subscription ledger and accounts, 1760 - 1815

(1 volume)

HO.PM/9 John Smith's suggestion for creating a fund for the purchase or construction of a hospital for Poor Married Women Lying-in, 1812

(3 papers)

HO.PM/10 Elliot's fund for building a hospital, 1819 - 1824

(1 volume)

HO.PM/11 £20,000 extension appeal, 1923

(1 file)

HO.PM/12 Handbill advertising a grand bazaar in aid of hospital funds, n.d. [1927]

(1 paper)

HO.PM/13 £30,000 extension appeal, 1927 - 1928

(1 file)

HO.PM/14 Appeal brochure, 1931

(1 printed booklet)

HO.PM/15 Balance sheet and annual accounts, 1928

(2 papers)

HO.PM/16 Financial statement, 1928

(1 paper)

Legal

HO.PM/17/1-6 Leases, 1923 - 1937

(1 parchment, 3 papers, 1 file)

HO.PM/18/1-2 Schedules of conveyances, 1848 - 1876

(2 papers)

HO.PM/19 Notes on the lease between the hospital and Newcastle Corporation, 1929

(2 papers)

HO.PM/20 Certificate from the Charity Commissioners allowing the sale of property in New Bridge Street and Market Street, Newcastle, 1926

(1 paper)

HO.PM/21 Memorandum of agreement between the Northern Counties Orphan Institution and Princess Mary Maternity Hospital, 1939

(1 paper)

HO.PM/22/1-3 Licences to keep a Lying-in Hospital, 1774 - 1876

(3 papers)

HO.PM/23/1-5 Letters, 1818 - 1957

(25 papers)

Patients Records

HO.PM/24 Register of patients, 1760 - 1786

(1 volume)

HO.PM/46 Register of women lying-in at their own homes, 1838 - 1878

(1 volume)

HO.PM/25 Register of external maternity, 1920 - 1922

(1 volume)

HO.PM/26/1-2 Registers of Labour patients, 1903 - 1924

(2 volumes)

HO.PM/27/1-29 Inpatients record books, 1924 - 1974

(29 volumes)

HO.PM/28/1-11 Admission registers, 1974 - 1985

(11 volumes)

HO.PM/29 Medical report book including case information, 1821 - 1833

(1 volume)

HO.PM/30/1-7 Case notes, 1951 - 1955

(7 volumes)

HO.PM/31/1-2 Premature Infants registers, 1931 - 1936

(2 volumes)

HO.PM/32/1-28 Record of babies, 1945 - 1974

(28 volumes)

HO.PM/47/1-17 Register of babies, 1974 - 1982

(17 volumes)

HO.PM/48/1-2 Flying Squad Record Book, 1966 - 1990

(1 volume, 1 file)

HO.PM/33 Annual medical reports, 1931 - 1957

(1 volume)

HO.PM/34/1-2 Paediatric annual reports, 1947 - 1948

(2 volumes)

HO.PM/35 Ward routine for nursing staff, n.d. [c.1950's]

(1 paper)

Publicity

HO.PM/36/1-3 Photograph albums, 1923 - 1931

(3 booklets)

HO.PM/37/1-4 Newspaper cuttings albums, 1923 - 1986

(4 volumes)

HO.PM/38/1-2 Visitor's books, 1817 - 1970

(7 papers, 1 volume)

HO.PM/39-40 Souvenir programme and invitation to the official opening of the hospital, 1923

(1 booklet, 1 paper)

HO.PM/50 Souvenir programme for the opening of the hospital on the Great North Road, 14 February 1950

(1 volume)

HO.PM/41 Framed cheque from Princess Mary, her donation to the hospital, 1923

(1 framed paper)

HO.PM/42/1-2 Photographs of unveiling ceremonies at the hospital, 1930's

(2 photographs)

HO.PM/43 Inventory of the hospital and the maids and nurses homes, 1950

(1 volume)

HO.PM/44 16mm black and white positive film made by Tyne Tees Television, title "Flying Squad" about the hospital's maternity flying squad, n.d. [1960]

(1 film)

HO.PM/49/1-2 Draft proposals for a new maternity hospital and children's hospital, 1963

(1 volume, 3 papers)

Princess Mary Maternity Hospital

Lying-in Hospital, Newcastle

Accession numbers 595 (part), 672 (part) 688, 767, 2126 (part), 2149, 2176 (part), 2821, 3289 (part)

• Health services
• Clinical medicine
• Nursing
• Patients
• Health policy
• Diseases
• Medical sciences
• Preventive medicine

The hospital was founded by Act of Parliament on 1 October 1760 in Rosemary Lane, Newcastle as a Lying-in Hospital and it remained at these premises until 1826 when a new building was erected in New Bridge Street. The funds for this were raised by public subscription. In 1858 the Charity for the Relief of Poor Women Lying-in at Their Own Homes in Newcastle and Gateshead, which had begun in 1761, was amalgamated with the Lying-in Hospital. Eventually, the building in New Bridge Street too proved inadequate and a second public appeal raised sufficient funds to build a new hospital on a site in Jubilee Road, the lease of which was given to the Trustees by Newcastle City Council. The new hospital was opened on the 24th November 1923 by HRH Princess Mary after whom the hospital was named.

During the Second World War, as a precautionary measure, it moved to the Northern Counties Orphans Institution on the Great North Road. This was subsequently rebuilt and reopened on the 14 February 1950 by the Princess Royal.

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