Catalogue description The Whickham and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital

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Details of HO.WH
Reference: HO.WH
Title: The Whickham and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital
Description:

HO.Wh/1 Whickham and District Nursing Association minutes, 1908-1935

 

(Includes Cottage Hospital Committee minutes 1913-1919)

 

HO.Wh/2/1-2 Constitution with amendment, c.1920

 

HO.Wh/3/1-19 Annual Reports, 1920-1947

 

HO.Wh/4/1-3 Management Committee Election nominations, 1922, 1923, 1925

 

HO.Wh/5/1-5 Governor's meetings agendas, 1921-1942

 

HO.Wh/6/1-5 Admission registers, 1922-1972

 

HO.Wh/7/1-3 Matron's and Physician's reports, 1951-1984

 

HO.Wh/8 Inventory broadsheet

 

HO.Wh/9 Correspondence, 1957

 

HO.Wh/10/1-2 Treasurer's memoranda, 1930-1942

 

HO.Wh/11/1-4 Honorary secretary's circulars, 1920-1923
Date: 1908-1984
Held by: Tyne and Wear Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

The Whickham and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital
Physical description: 11 SERIES
Immediate source of acquisition:

Accessions 1825 (part) and 1843
Subjects:
  • Health services
  • Clinical medicine
  • Nursing
  • Patients
  • Health policy
  • Diseases
  • Medical sciences
  • Preventive medicine
Administrative / biographical background:

In 1919 the hospital trustees purchased the Old rectory, Whickham, and converted it into a small hospital, which officially opened in 1922. The impetus for the opening of the hospital came from the Nursing Association. The hospital closed in 1985.
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