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Hospital

St George's Hospital

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Important information

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Details

Previous Names
St George's Hospital and Atkinson Morley's convalescent Home.
Address
Blackshaw Road, London, SW17 0QT
Previous Locations
Lanesborough House, Knightsbridge (1733 - 1833)
Hyde Park Corner (1833 - 1980)
Current Trust
St George's Healthcare NHS Trust (since 1993)
Foundation Year
1733
Status
Open

Administrative Authorities

Regional Board (1948-1974)
London (Teaching)
Management Committee (1948-1974)
St George's
Regional Authority (1974-1982)
South West Thames
Regional Authority (Post-1982)
South West Thames
District Authority (1974-1982)
Wandsworth and East Merton (Teaching)
District Authority (Post-1982)
Wandsworth
Pre-1974 County
Middlesex
Post-1974 County
Greater London
Post-1996 County
Greater London

Status

Pre-1948
Voluntary
Post-1948
NHS

Type

Pre-1948
General
Post-1948
Acute

Other information

Built on sites of previous Grove Fever Hospital (Tooting) and Fountain Children's Hospital. See separate entry for Grove Hospital. Certain items of value from the chapel and St George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner are in Victoria and Albert Museum. Amalgamated with St James' Hospital, Balham in 1980; with Bolingbroke Hospital, Wandsworth Common in 1975; with Springfield Hospital, Tooting in 1974. Atkinson Morley's Hospital, Wimbledon (founded 1860) was originally the convalescent home for St George's Hospital SW1. Royal Dental Hospital , London W1 was managed by the St George's Hospital Group until its closure in 1985, when services were transferred to Guy's Hospital and St George's Hospital, Tooting.

Record locations

  • London Metropolitan Archives

    Record types

    Administrative
    1733 - 1987
    General
    1733 - 1987
    Finance
    1733 - 1987
    Estates
    1733 - 1987
    Nursing
    1733 - 1987
    Staff
    1733 - 1987
    Admission
    1900 - 1987
    Clinical
    1965 - 1987
    Pictorial
    1733 - 1987
    Private Papers
    1733 - 1987
    Other
    1733 - 1987

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Brief guide (BG)
    Location
    At Repository (AR)
    Details
    Brief Guide: Hospital and Charity Annual Report. Records surveyed on site at St George's by archivists of CMAC, Wellcome Institute, mid-1980s
    Annual Reports - Annual Report Collection SC/PPs/093/65,85. Bulk of records transferred from St George's Medical School Library, Dec 2005; Records include those of the Court and Corporate Authority from 18th century.

  • Wellcome Library

    Record types

    Administrative
    1760 - 1945
    Finance
    1760 - 1844
    Nursing
    1939 - 1945
    Clinical
    1863 - 1863
    Ephemera
    1786 - 1863
    Private Papers
    1848 - 1858
    Other
    1939 - 1945

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Catalogue
    Location
    At Repository (AR)
    receipts recording payments towards the support of the hospital, 1760, 1844 MS 7903/3-4; Printed and illustrated ticket entering Thomas Mitchell as a student at St. George's Hospital, London, signed by various medical figures including the anatomist John Hunter, 1786 MS 7847/15; Henry Vandyke Carter, letters from while medical student, 1848-53, journals while medical student and Demonstrator in Anatomy, 1848-52, 1857-8 MSS 5810, 5816, 5818; Casebook for which Heywood Smith awarded prize for Clinical Surgery, 1863 MS 4635; Charles Hunter notice of election as Governor, 1863 MS 6892; 'Reminiscences of the Hospital at the corner' by Pamela Clewett, probationer nurse, 1939-45 GC/41