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Hospital

St Andrew's Hospital

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Important information

Information about this hospital might be outdated.

Details

Previous Names
Norfolk County Asylum (1814 - 1915)
Norfolk War Hospital (1915 - 1919)
Norfolk Mental Hospital (1919 - 1923)
St Andrew's Hospital (1923 - 1998)
Address
Thorpe Road, Norwich, NR7 0SS
Current Trust
Norfolk Mental Health Care NHS Trust
Foundation Year
1814
Status
Closed (since 1998)

Administrative Authorities

Regional Board (1948-1974)
East Anglian
Management Committee (1948-1974)
Norwich Mental I
Regional Authority (1974-1982)
East Anglian
Regional Authority (Post-1982)
East Anglian
District Authority (1974-1982)
Norwich
District Authority (Post-1982)
Norwich
Pre-1974 County
Norfolk
Post-1974 County
Norfolk
Post-1996 County
Norfolk

Status

Pre-1948
Local Authority
Pre-1948 information
Local Authority: Visiting Justices and Norfolk County Lunatic Asylum / Visitors of St Andrew's Hospital, 1813 - 1948
Post-1948
NHS

Type

Pre-1948
Mental
Post-1948
Mental
Post-1948 information
MNT: Mental illness.

Other information

In 1939 340 beds were put aside for use by the Emergency Hospital Scheme. On 30 June 1945 111 beds were handed back for normal use but the EHS retained beds in St Andrew's Hospital until 1947.

Record locations

  • Norfolk Record Office

    Record types

    Administrative
    1813 - 1969
    General
    1814 - 1955
    Finance
    1816 - 1963
    Estates
    1855 - 1958
    Nursing
    1915 - 1948
    Staff
    1854 - 1963
    Admission
    1814 - 1966
    Clinical
    1814 - 1999
    Ephemera
    1844 - 1969
    Pictorial
    1860 - 1963
    Private Papers
    1817 - 1839
    Other
    1892 - 1946

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Catalogue
    Location
    At Repository (AR)
    Details
    Catalogue: SAH
    Physician's journals, 1817-20, 1835-9; mortuary records 1960-1982