Catalogue description Whiteleas Hospital, South Shields

This record is held by Tyne and Wear Archives

Details of HO.WT
Reference: HO.WT
Title: Whiteleas Hospital, South Shields
Description:

Wages books, Matron's household accounts
Date: 1927-1949
Held by: Tyne and Wear Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Whiteleas Hospital, South Shields
Physical description: 5 volumes
Immediate source of acquisition:

Accession 2242 (part)
Subjects:
  • Health services
  • Clinical medicine
  • Nursing
  • Patients
  • Health policy
  • Diseases
  • Medical sciences
  • Preventive medicine
Administrative / biographical background:

Whiteleas Hospital was taken over from South Shields Town Council on 1 December 1908, by the North East Durham Joint Smallpox Hospital Board (see HB/ND). It was run as a smallpox hospital by them until 1948 when it was absorbed by the newly created National Health Service.
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