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Hospital

St Thomas' Hospital

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Important information

Information about this hospital might be outdated.

Details

Previous Names
Infirmary of the Augustinian Priory of St Mary Overy, c. 1106-c. 1215; 5th London (City of London) General Hospital (military section of 200 beds only), 1915-1919
Address
Lambeth Palace Road, London, SE1 7EH
Previous Locations
Long Southwark, later known as Borough High Street, Southwark (c.1200 - 1862)
Surrey Gardens, Newington (1862 - 1871); Hydestyle nr Godalming 1941-1945 (World War II evacuation)
Current Trust
Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital NHS Trust (since 1993)
Foundation Year
1106 (approximately)
Status
Open

Administrative Authorities

Regional Board (1948-1974)
London (Teaching)
Management Committee (1948-1974)
St Thomas'
Regional Authority (1974-1982)
South East Thames
Regional Authority (Post-1982)
South East Thames
District Authority (1974-1982)
St Thomas' (Teaching)
District Authority (Post-1982)
West Lambeth
Pre-1974 County
Surrey/London
Post-1974 County
Greater London
Post-1996 County
Greater London

Status

Pre-1948
Voluntary, Other
Pre-1948 information
OTHER: c.1200 - 1540 Monastic (Augustinian canons), 1551 - 1948 Endowed royal hospital. MIL: during First World War 200 beds set aside for sick and wounded of the armed forces, and in 1915 this became the 5th London (City of London) General Hospital, until 1919; 200 beds again set aside for military use, 1939-1945
Post-1948
NHS

Type

Pre-1948
General, Military
Post-1948
Acute

Other information

Parent institution was the Priory of St Mary Overy (or Southwark Priory).

Record locations

  • King's College Archives

    Record types

    Administrative
    1950 - 1980
    Nursing
    1950 - 1980

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Brief guide (BG)
    Location
    At Repository (AR), Other
    Details
    AIM25
    KCLCA TH/SN/FP

  • London Metropolitan Archives

    Record types

    Administrative
    1200 - 2001
    General
    1265 - 1998
    Finance
    1559 - 1966
    Estates
    1200 - 1983
    Nursing
    1844 - 1996
    Staff
    1871 - 1999
    Admission
    1672 - 1957
    Clinical
    1870 - 1984
    Ephemera
    1665 - 1999
    Pictorial
    1542 - 1996
    Private Papers
    1680 - 1996
    Other
    1619 - 2001

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Brief guide (BG), Catalogue, Computerised
    Location
    At Repository (AR), National Register of Archives (NRA)
    Details
    AR: CAT: HO1/ST, HO1/L/B/24. Records of school children treated under the Education Act 1907 s.13 1b, 1909 - 1949 are in London County Council Public Health School Health Services Committee PH/SHS/2.
    Includes records of Medical School, Nightingale School, Nightingale Collection, papers of Henry Bonham-Carter, Physiotherapy School, St John's House, St John's and St Thomas's House, St Thomas's House
    Annual Reports 1897 - 1947 SC/PPS/093/71,85; Almoner's and Social Work Dept; Ladies Guild/Friends; various specialist departments; Nurses Recreation Society; minutes, papers, case books 1973-1984 reported in NRA Accessions to Repositories 2009

  • Royal College of Surgeons of England

    Record types

    Administrative
    1710 - 1870
    Clinical
    1710 - 1838
    Private Papers
    1710 - 1838
    Other
    1775 - 1870
    Clinical notebook of Thomas Wallace includes notes of cases; memoranda and notes on patients by Sir John Simon, 1838; lectures given by Henry Cline, Joseph Else, Sydney Jones, Astley Cooper, Sir John Simon

  • Southwark Local Studies Library

    Record types

    Administrative
    1803 - 1821
    Admission
    1803 - 1821
    Clinical
    1803 - 1821

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Brief guide (BG)
    Location
    At Repository (AR)
    Southwark Archives 5930.
    Records are indexed.
    They are all petitions for admission from the poor of St George the Martyr Parish, Southwark.

  • Wellcome Library

    Record types

    Administrative
    1730 - 1972
    General
    1825 - 1948
    Finance
    1732 - 1770
    Clinical
    1730 - 1914
    Ephemera
    1730 - 1747
    Other
    1766 - 1972

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Catalogue
    Location
    At Repository (AR)
    St Thomas's Hospital: clinical notes and Catalogus Medicamentorum, c.1730 MS 4382; Pharmacopœia, 1743. MS 6164; Pharmacopœia, in recipe collection, 1746 MS 5752; Pharmacopœia, in collection of notes etc by John Parkinson of Wandsworth., c.1747, MS 6148; Account book of Thomas Baker, Surgeon from 1739, naming apprentices, dressers and students., 1732-70 MS 5781; John Coakley Lettsom: fragment of autobiography including life as medical student at St Thomas's, 1766-7 MS 3245; Papers on ownership of anatomical collection, 1825-9 MS 7804; Theodore Dyke Acland , catalogue of specimens in Physiological Laboratory, c.1880, Case notes including cases at St Thomas's, 1893-1914 MSS 839, 845 ; material in Thomas Hodgkin papers PP/HO; Papers of William Walters Sargant include memoranda and correspondence re administration of the Department of Pyschological Medicine, 1948, history of the department, 1948-65; and records of Sargant's research there 1948-72 PP/WWS