Bristol Record Office
Record types
- Administrative
- 1866 - 1948
- General
- 1866 - 1948
- Admission
- 1940 - 1948
- Clinical
- 1923 - 1924
- Pictorial
- 1925 - 1925
Finding aids
- Finding aids
- Catalogue
- Location
- At Repository (AR), National Register of Archives (NRA)
Hospital
Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children
Last updated .
Important information
Information about this hospital might be outdated.
Details
- Previous Names
- Bristol Free Institution for Diseases of Women and Children (1857- c.1867)
- Bristol Hospital for Sick Children and Outdoor Treatment of Women (by 1867 - c.1887)
- Bristol Hospital for Sick Children and Women (c.1887 - c.1910)
- Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Women (c.1910 - 1948)
- Address
- St Michael's Hill, Bristol, BS2 8BJ
- Previous Locations
- St James Square (1857 - c.1910)
- Current Trust
- United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust (since 1991)
- Foundation Year
- 1857
- Status
- Open
Administrative Authorities
- Regional Board (1948-1974)
- Provinces (Teaching)
- Management Committee (1948-1974)
- United Bristol
- Regional Authority (1974-1982)
- South Western
- Regional Authority (Post-1982)
- South Western
- District Authority (1974-1982)
- Bristol (Teaching)
- District Authority (Post-1982)
- Bristol and Weston
- Pre-1974 County
- Bristol
- Post-1974 County
- Avon
- Post-1996 County
- Bristol
Status
- Pre-1948
- Voluntary
- Post-1948
- NHS
Type
- Pre-1948
- Children, Women
- Post-1948
- Acute
- Post-1948 information
- AC: Children.
Other information
The original dispensary was for care of the sick in their own homes. An outpatients department was founded in 1857, a children's inpatient department in 1866 and a women's inpatient department in 1876. Associated institutions - Bristol Dispensary, Castle Green, founded in 1775, and Jan Smuts Convalescent Home, Burnham-on -Sea, founded in 1945.