Catalogue description Seaham Hall Hospital

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Title: Seaham Hall Hospital
Description:

Case registers
Date: 1928-1970
Held by: Tyne and Wear Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Seaham Hall Hospital
Physical description: 2 volumes
Immediate source of acquisition:

Formerly Accession 1481 (part)
Subjects:
  • Health services
  • Clinical medicine
  • Nursing
  • Patients
  • Health policy
  • Diseases
  • Medical sciences
  • Preventive medicine
Administrative / biographical background:

Sunderland Hospital Management Committee administered four hospitals for the treatment of tuberculosis. These were Boldon Sanatorium, Grindon Hall Sanatorium, Havelock Hospital and Seaham Hall Sanatorium. The latter was formerly known as Seaham House and was owned by the Marquess of Londonderry. The poet Byron was married there in 1815. It now functions as a hotel.
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