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Hospital

Whitchurch Hospital

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Important information

Information about this hospital might be outdated.

Details

Previous Names
Cardiff City Mental Hospital (1908 - 1915)
Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital (1915 - 1919)
Cardiff City Mental Hospital (1919 - 1939)
Whitchurch Emergency Hospital (1939 - 1945)
Cardiff City Mental Hospital (1945 - 1948)
Address
Whitchurch, Cardiff, CF4 7XB
Current Trust
Cardiff Community Healthcare (since 1996)
Foundation Year
1908
Status
Open

Administrative Authorities

Regional Board (1948-1974)
Welsh
Management Committee (1948-1974)
Whitchurch and Ely
Regional Authority (1974-1982)
South Glamorgan
Regional Authority (Post-1982)
Wales
District Authority (1974-1982)
South Glamorgan (Teaching)
District Authority (Post-1982)
South Glamorgan
Pre-1974 County
Glamorgan
Post-1974 County
South Glamorgan
Post-1996 County
Cardiff

Status

Pre-1948
Local Authority
Pre-1948 information
Local Authority: Cardiff County Borough
Post-1948
NHS

Type

Pre-1948
Mental, Other
Pre-1948 information
Other: War Emergency
Post-1948
Mental
Post-1948 information
MNT: Mental illness.

Other information

Records of The War Hospital (1915 - 1919) and the Whitchurch Emergency Hospital (1940 - 1945) have now been re-listed under the reference D/D HWHE.

Record locations

  • Glamorgan Archives

    Record types

    Administrative
    1908 - 1988
    General
    1915 - 1984
    Finance
    1921 - 1955
    Nursing
    1908 - 1979
    Staff
    1908 - 1956
    Admission
    1908 - 1988
    Clinical
    1905 - 1993

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Catalogue
    Location
    At Repository (AR), National Register of Archives (NRA)
    Details
    Catalogue: GB214 D/D HWW, D/D HWHE
    Including Records as War Emergency Hospital 1940 - 1954
    Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital 19DH919
    And Civil Nursing Reserve Records 1939 - 1956
    The records include a considerable number of admissions and medical registers relating to treatment, post mortem records, a sample of patients' files 1918 - 1968 and registers of deaths 1905 - 1993

  • Wellcome Library

    Record types

    Administrative
    1906 - 1950
    General
    1913 - 1922
    Clinical
    1912 - 1923
    Ephemera
    1906 - 1950
    Other
    1913 - 1926

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Catalogue, Computerised
    Location
    At Repository (AR)
    Material relating to biochemical studies undertaken at hospital, now in the archives of the Biochemical Society - SA/BIO/R - in the Wellcome Library; and scrapbook about the hospital