Hospital

Jane Walker Hospital

Last updated 17 October 2002.

Details

Previous Names

East Anglian Sanatorium (1896 - 1948) aka Nayland Sanatorium

British Legion Sanatorium (1948 - 1959)

Address

Nayland, Colchester, CO6 4NE

Previous Locations

Downham Market Norfolk (1896 - 1901); Nayland, Suffolk

Foundation Year

1896

Status

Closed (since 1990)

Administrative Authorities

Regional Board (1948-1974)

East Anglian

Management Committee (1948-1974)

West Suffolk

Regional Authority (1974-1982)

East Anglian

Regional Authority (Post-1982)

East Anglian

District Authority (1974-1982)

Bury St Edmunds

District Authority (Post-1982)

East Suffolk

Pre-1974 County

Suffolk

Post-1974 County

Suffolk

Post-1996 County

Not applicable

Status

Pre-1948

Voluntary

Post-1948

NHS

Type

Pre-1948

Tuberculosis

Post-1948

Mental, Other

Post-1948 information

OTHER: 1948 - 1959 TB and chest.

MNT: Mental handicap.

Other information

Between 1901 and 1943 there were three institutions:- East Anglian Sanatorium East Anglian Childrens Sanatorium Maltings Farm Sanatorium which were all administered by East Anglian Sanatorium Co Ltd.

Record locations

• Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch

  Record types

  Administrative

  1896 - 1961

  General

  1899 - 1958

  Finance

  1914 - 1949

  Staff

  1905 - 1942

  Admission

  1896 - 1959

  Clinical

  1933 - 1955

  Finding aids

  Finding aids

  Catalogue

  Location

  At Repository (AR), National Register of Archives (NRA)

  Details

  NRA: CAT: 29800.

  At Repository: CAT: ID507

• Wellcome Library

  Record types

  Administrative

  1900 - 1956

  Ephemera

  1900 - 1956

  Pictorial

  1900 - 1956

  Other

  1938 - 1938

  Finding aids

  Finding aids

  Catalogue

  Location

  At Repository (AR)

  cuttings, photos, ephemera and memorabila, letters of condolence on death of Dr Jane Walker, its founder (1938) and scrapbook, 1900s-50s SA/MWF/C.53-55, C.231