Catalogue description South Shields General Hospital

This record is held by Tyne and Wear Archives

Details of HO.SSG
Reference: HO.SSG
Title: South Shields General Hospital
Description:

Hospital records
Date: 1889 - 1988
Held by: Tyne and Wear Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

South Shields General Hospital
Physical description: 24 SERIES
Immediate source of acquisition:

Accession 242 (part), 2282 (part), 2709 (part), 2788 (part) 2835 (part), 2868 (part) and 2975 (part).
Subjects:
  • Health services
  • Clinical medicine
  • Nursing
  • Patients
  • Health policy
  • Diseases
  • Medical sciences
  • Preventive medicine
Administrative / biographical background:

Originally, the General Hospital was built by the South Shields Poor Law Union as a workhouse hospital, which opened in 1880. Harton Institution and Hospital as it was known, passed into the control of South Shields Corporation on 1 April 1930, but it was not until 1 April 1937 that the hospital became a seperate General Hospital.

 

Where records form a complete series from workhouse to General Hospital, they have been included in this list.
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