Administrative history:
In the
mid-nineteenth century it was common in most hospitals for alcohol to be given
to both patients and staff. Some members of the temperance movement began to
argue that this impaired staff efficiency and restricted patients' treatment. A
temperance dispensary was opened in 1860 in Upper Park Place in north west
London, by an apothecary, Dr. C.H. Yewen. On 17 February 1871, Dr Yewen
presented a paper on the subject of establishing a hospital founded on
temperance principles at a meeting chaired by the President of the National
Temperance League, Mr. Samuel Bowly. A committee was appointed and a lease was
acquired on 112 Gower Street for twenty one years. The first meeting of
subscribers was held on 6 May 1873, and the London Temperance Hospital opened,
receiving its first patients on 6 October that same year. The Board of
Management which was appointed to manage the Hospital was composed of 12 total
abstainers.
Under the rules of the new hospital, the use of
alcohol to treat patients was discouraged, but not outlawed: doctors could
prescribe alcohol when they thought necessary for 'exceptional cases', and a
record of such cases was kept.
A Building and Extension Fund was
launched in 1875, which eventually resulted in the acquisition of land next to
St James' Church on the Hampstead Road. The foundation stone of the first
section to be built, the East Wing, was laid in 1879 and the new hospital was
eventually opened in 1885 by Dr. Frederick Temple, Archbishop of
York.
Inpatients were admitted to the new hospital free by a
letter from a governor, or on payment of a fixed amount. Outpatients could be
admitted with a governor's letter or pay at least a shilling a visit.
Subscribers of a guinea per annum were entitled to recommend 6 outpatients a
year, and those of 2 guineas per annum one inpatient and 6 outpatients. Life
Governorship was conferred on payment of a lump sum of 20
guineas.
A children's ward was opened in 1892 by the Duchess of
Westminster. In 1893, 12 beds were set aside for cholera patients at the
request of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
There was further
expansion of the hospital on the site of the vicarage of St. James' Church, the
foundation stone being laid on 25 October 1906. The Ear, Nose and Throat and
Skin Departments were opened in 1913/14.
A new Nurses' Home was
opened in 1925, built as a memorial to Sir Thomas Vezey Strong, who had been
Chairman of the hospital from 1899 until his death in 1920. An Appeals
Department was established in 1923 to help with fundraising. The Insull
Memorial Wing was opened in 1932, after a gift from Mr. Samuel Insull of
Chicago. It provided accommodation for special departments, private wards and
nurses. The name of the hospital was changed to The National Temperance
Hospital at an extraordinary general meeting held on 10 February 1932.
During World War Two the hospital was designated a Grade A Unit
and a 1a Casualty Station.
Under the National Health Service Act
1946, the hospital was transferred to the North West Metropolitan Regional
Hospital Board under the Paddington Group Hospital Management Committee. Within
the Hospital Management Committee, the National Temperance Hospital was managed
by House Committee No. 1, together with the Institute of Ray Therapy and the
Mayor of St. Pancras Home for Children. (There were 6 House Committees in
total, and they reported to the General Purposes Committee, which was a
sub-committee of the Hospital Management Committee.)
Between 1960
and 1969 a number of beds were set aside for use by the Eastman Dental Hospital
to reduce their waiting lists.
The private patients' beds in the
Insull Wing were closed on 1 January 1968, and on 1 April the Hospital was
transferred to the University College Hospital Group, at which point the
Casualty Department was closed and all casualties referred to UCH instead. In
May and June 1969 the Camden Chest Clinic, formerly the Holborn Chest Unit and
the St. Pancras Chest Unit, and the UCH Asthma and Allergy Clinic moved into
the National Temperance Hospital. The Nurses' lecture room was closed down when
the UCH School of Nursing opened at Minerva House in 1969 and nurses' training
in the UCH Group became centralised there.
The Hospital eventually
closed down, probably at some point in the 1980s, although the date is
unknown.
Medical and surgical reports
NTH/12 early 20th
century
Arrangement:
Arranged
chronologically
Report of medical cases
NTH/12/1 1883-1885
Report of medical and surgical cases: annual report of the
Registrar
NTH/12/2 1886-1887
Report of medical and surgical cases admitted into the
London Temperance Hospital
NTH/12/3 1886-1888
Report of medical and surgical cases admitted into the
London Temperance Hospital
NTH/12/4 1889-1891
Report of medical and surgical cases admitted during the
year 1894, by the Visiting Physicians to the Hospital
NTH/12/5 1894
Report of surgical and ophthalmic cases admitted during
the year 1894, by Leonard Wilde [Registrar, Pathologist and Anaesthetist at the
Hospital]
NTH/12/6 1894
Registrar's report of the medical, surgical and ophthalmic
cases treated during the year 1896, by William Griffith [Resident Medical
Officer at the Hospital]
NTH/12/7 1896
Registrar's report of the medical, surgical and ophthalmic
cases treated during the year 1899
NTH/12/8 1899
Registrar's report of the medical, surgical and ophthalmic
cases treated during the year 1902
NTH/12/9 1902
Registrar's report of the medical, surgical and ophthalmic
cases treated during the year 1903
NTH/12/10 1903
Registrar's report of the medical, surgical and ophthalmic
cases treated during the year 1904
NTH/12/11 1904
Registrar's report of the medical, surgical and ophthalmic
cases treated during the year 1905
NTH/12/12 1905
Registrar's report of the medical, surgical and ophthalmic
cases treated during the year 1906
NTH/12/13 1906
Registrar's report of the medical, surgical and ophthalmic
cases treated during the year 1907
NTH/12/14 1907
Registrar's report of the medical, surgical and ophthalmic
cases treated during the year 1908
NTH/12/15 1908
Registrar's report of the medical, surgical and ophthalmic
cases treated during the year 1909
NTH/12/16 1909
Registrar's report of the medical, surgical and ophthalmic
cases treated during the year 1910
NTH/12/17 1910
Registrar's report of the medical, surgical and ophthalmic
cases treated during the year 1911
NTH/12/18 1911
Registrar's report of the medical, surgical and ophthalmic
cases treated during the year 1912
NTH/12/19 1912
Registrar's report of the medical, surgical and ophthalmic
cases treated during the year 1915
NTH/12/20 1915
Report of 129 surgical operations treated without alcohol
by James Edmunds
NTH/12/21 1891
Correspondence and general administrative
records
NTH/16 c 1900-1970Schedule of deeds relating to the purchase of 122
Hampstead Road and 59 Cardington Street.
NTH/16/1 1884
Letter from Mr Tregelles to the Chairman and members of
the special committee on hospital properties
NTH/16/2 October 16
1893
Archival history:
This letter was found in the UCLH NHS Trust Human Resources Department, 112
Hampstead Road.
Source of acquisition:
2002/12
Schedule of deeds held in the deed box at Parrs
Bank
NTH/16/3 1904-1918
Arrangement:
This document was
found during sorting in a box file labelled 'Old records' which also contained
various miscellaneous items. It was felt that they had been collected together
in a random way and that therefore they should be separate items.
Memorandum and Articles of Association of the London
Temperance Hospital
NTH/16/4 10 October 1917
Certificate of incorporation of the London Temperance
Hospital under the Companies' Acts
NTH/16/5 1917
Arrangement:
This document was
found during sorting of the records included in a bundle of other papers in
this series. It was felt that it should be arranged as a file on its own and
was accordingly separated.
Contents:
This file
contains the certificate and the envelope in which it was sent to the Hospital
in 1961 - there is no information about why it was sent there at that time.
Agreement between the Metropolitan Borough Council of St.
Pancras and the London Temperance Hospital relating to work at 56, 57 and 58
Cardington Street
NTH/16/6 11 October 1922
Arrangement:
This document was
found during sorting in a box file labelled 'Old records' which also contained
various miscellaneous items. It was felt that they had been collected together
in a random way and that therefore they should be separate items.
Papers relating to the estate of William Henry
Taylor.
NTH/16/7 1913-1924
Arrangement:
These documents
were found during sorting in a box file labelled 'Old records' which also
contained various miscellaneous items. It was felt that they had been collected
together in a random way and that therefore they should be separate items.
Contents:
These are
general papers relating to the will and estate of WH Taylor: Robert Alfred
Penney, Treasurer of the Hospital was the Executor of the will, and the papers
include the Request for Letters of Administration.
Six postcards sent to staff at the
Hospital
NTH/16/8 1929-1947
Arrangement:
These documents
was found during sorting in a box file labelled 'Old records' which also
contained various miscellaneous items. It was felt that they had been collected
together in a random way and that therefore they should be separate items.
Contents:
Four of the
postcards are personal messages to staff at the Hospital. One is a message to
Alfred Adams conveying apologies for being unable to attend a meeting at the
Hospital, and one is from a member of the public offering her services as a
flag-seller on Flag Day Sunday at the Hospital, 20 July
1930.
Papers relating to the will of F. J.
Moule
NTH/16/9 1935
Arrangement:
These papers were
in a larger bundle of papers, which included the certificate of incorporation
under the Companies Acts (NTH/17/4) and papers concerning the reconstruction of
the hospital kitchens in the 1950s. It was felt that these papers should form a
separate file and they were accordingly separated.
Contents:
These
papers primarily concern confusion over this will, which appeared to leave
bequests to a number of charities, including the National Temperance Hospital,
but did not specify the conditions of the bequests. The papers include legal
opinion on the will and consultation with other charities, including the
Shaftesbury Society and Ragged School Union and the Royal Free and the Royal
Northern Hospitals.
Papers relating to the estate of Mr John
Newbury
NTH/16/10 1931-1935
Papers relating to legacies
NTH/16/11 1922-1946
Arrangement:
These papers were
originally in one box file, but have been removed and placed in two new
folders
General administrative papers, including Ministry auditors
endowment queries, papers relating to endowments, legacies, etc., a report on
an inquest on a patient who died in the Hospital in 1939, and a report on the
preliminary scheme for proposed additions to the Outpatient building in May
1929.
NTH/16/12 1929-1948
Arrangement:
These papers were
found during sorting in a box file. It was felt that they should remain
together as one file because there was not an obvious way in which to separate
them into different files. The file also contained the Memorandum and Articles
of Association of the Institute of Hospital Administrators, which has not been
retained. They have been removed from the box file and placed in two new
folders.
Correspondence with the King Edward Hospital Fund,
including issues concerning radium storage and use, and the establishment of
the NHS.
NTH/16/13 1938-1944
Cardington Street: correspondence with the charity
commission and Syrett and Sons
NTH/16/14 1934-1945
Arrangement:
The papers have
been removed for preservation reasons from the original file cover, which has
been retained.
Cardington Street: King's Fund, including London Voluntary
Hospitals Committee, British Hospital Association and London County
Council
NTH/16/15 1934-1935
Arrangement:
The papers have
been removed for preservation reasons from the original file cover, which has
been retained.
No. 55 Cardington Street
NTH/16/16 1935-1945
Arrangement:
The papers have
been removed for preservation reasons from the original file cover, which has
been retained.
Related information:
There are archives
relating to the King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, the Voluntary Hospitals
Committee and the London County Council at London Metropolitan Archives.
Contents:
Contains a
copy of the Report on the New Maternity Wing, September 1935
Mr
Syrett re: Cardington Street
NTH/16/17 1938-1939
Arrangement:
The papers have
been removed for preservation reasons from the original file cover, which has
been retained.
Ladies Association Treasurer's receipts and payment
account for the year ending 1939, and related letter from M. Moustardier,
Accountant
NTH/16/18 1939
Specification for alterations and additions to the London
Temperance Hospital by Claude Ferrier, Consulting Architect and William B.
Binnie, Architect
NTH/16/19 May 1930
Report on air raid casualty station and hospital by
William B. Binnie, and related papers
NTH/16/20 1939-1941
Papers relating to the War Damage Act and
insurance
NTH/16/21 1941
Arrangement:
These documents
was found during sorting in a box file labelled 'Old records' which also
contained various miscellaneous items. It was felt that they had been collected
together in a random way and that therefore they should be separate items.
Papers relating to war damage building
work
NTH/16/22 1942
Arrangement:
This file was
found as part of a larger bundle of files and papers relating to building work
and financial matters, including mortgages, but has been separated as a
separate file.
Papers relating to war damage building
work
NTH/16/23 1943
Westminster
bank correspondence
NTH/16/24 1917-1933
Arrangement:
This file was
found during sorting as part of a larger bundle of files and papers, which
included the file on war damage work in 1942
Related information:
The
archives of the London County Westminster and Parr's Bank are held in the Royal
Bank of Scotland Archives
Mortgage
NTH/16/25 1933-1938
Arrangement:
This file was
found during sorting as part of a larger bundle of files and papers, which
included the file on war damage work in 1942
Mortgages - Guardian and Charity
Commission
NTH/16/26 1932
Arrangement:
This file was
found during sorting as part of a larger bundle of files and papers, which
included the file on war damage work in 1942
Papers relating to Ministry grant and Westminster bank,
including papers relating to the establishment of the NHS
NTH/16/27 1945-1946
Arrangement:
This file was
found during sorting as part of a larger bundle of files and papers, which
included the file on war damage work in 1942
Papers relating to endowments, legacies and other
financial matters. The papers contain some information about the Hospital's
investments back to 1873
NTH/16/28 1926-1948
Correspondence relating to building works and war damage
repair mainly between the Hospital and William Binnie, Architect, and HA King
&
Sons, Builders.
NTH/16/29 1940-1948
File relating to the conversion of the ground floor of 108
Hampstead Road, the St. Pancras Female Orphanage
NTH/16/30 1946-1949
Papers relating to the reconstruction of the kitchens at
the Hospital (C9, H22, A23 and papers from K5, K8 and C11)
NTH/16/32 1952-1957
Arrangement:
These papers were
found in various different files and bundles during sorting, and it was felt
that they should form a separate file together.
Photocopy of agreement for the sale of the freehold
premises at 108 Hampstead Road from the Trustees of the St. Pancras Female
Orphanage Charity to the National Temperance Hospital
NTH/16/31 22 December
1945
Two copies of 'Twenty-One', the magazine of the Paddington
Group Hospital Management Committee, with some correspondence relating to
appointing a member of the publications committee from the National Temperance
Hospital.
NTH/16/33 1953-1954
Arrangement:
This document was
found during sorting in a box file labelled 'Old records' which also contained
various miscellaneous items. It was felt that they had been collected together
in a random way and that therefore they should be separate items.
Papers relating to the Nurse training
school
NTH/16/34 1961-1965
Arrangement:
These papers were
in 3 files tied together - they have been removed from the original file covers
and placed in new folders
2 certificates of merit awarded to the National Temperance
Hospital by the London Gardens Society. The Society awarded these certificates
for stimulating a pride in London more especially by the cultivation of flowers
and home gardens
NTH/16/35 1964
Leaflet for the an Open-Day at the National Temperance
Hospital to celebrate its centenary on 6 October 1973.
NTH/16/36 1973
Arrangement:
This document was
found during sorting in a box file labelled 'Old records' which also contained
various miscellaneous items. It was felt that they had been collected together
in a random way and that therefore they should be separate items.
Visual items
NTH/18 1873-1973Contents:
Contains
photographs and watercolour painting
Photograph of a print by Rowlandson showing the turnpike
in the Hampstead Road in 1800, and also showing the site later to be occupied
by the London Temperance Hospital. The print was given by John Leighton to the
Hospital in 1890, and the photograph shows the annotation of the print to that
effect. The date of the photograph is unknown.
NTH/18/1 1890
Photograph of framed portrait photograph of Sir Thomas
Vezey Strong, Chairman of the Board of Management of the
Hospital
NTH/18/2 20th century
Creator(s):
Photograph of Mrs E Blaiklock Smith, member of the Board
of Management 1926-1944 and Honorary Treasurer of the Ladies Association
1926-1940
NTH/18/3 20th century
Photograph of Richard Rigg.
NTH/18/4 1936
Watercolour portrait, probably of Richard Rigg, signed,
"W. Dongworth".
NTH/18/5 Early 20th century
Photograph of the Hospital's staff dining room. This room
was later used as a boardroom by University College London Hospitals NHS Trust,
after the Hospital had closed, until the building was finally closed in
2004.
NTH/18/6 Early 20th century
Photograph of a group of staff. There is no information
about their possible identities.
NTH/18/8 Early 20th century
Photograph of a view of the Hospital looking south down
Hampstead Road.
NTH/18/9 Early 20th century
Photograph, apparently of a nurse looking at bomb damage
at the Hospital.
NTH/18/10 c 1940
Photograph, apparently of nurses looking at bomb damage at
the Hospital.
NTH/18/13 c 1940
Photograph: "The 'Richard Rigg' ward - the first of
the damaged wards to be restored and occupied after lapse of 6
years"
NTH/18/14 c 1946
Photograph believed to show occupational therapy
activities at the Hospital
NTH/18/15 c 1950
Photograph believed to show children undergoing sunlight
treatment in the Massage and Electrical Department.
NTH/18/16 c 1950
Photograph: March 1972, Chaplain's
room"
NTH/18/17 1972
Photograph: March 1972, Chaplain's
room"
NTH/18/18 1972
Photograph of Mr Leslie J. F. Edmunds, grandson of Dr
James Edmunds, co-founder of the Hospital, with the Hospital Secretary, Joan
Frame
NTH/18/19 1970
Photograph of Mr Leslie J. F. Edmunds, grandson of Dr
James Edmunds, co-founder of the Hospital, with the Hospital Secretary, Joan
Frame, standing outside the front entrance to the Hospital
NTH/18/20 1970
