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Hospital

Guy's Hospital

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Important information

Information about this hospital might be outdated.

Details

Address
St Thomas' Street, London, SE1 9RT
Current Trust
Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital NHS Trust (since 1993)
Previous Trusts
Guy's NHS Trust from 1990
Foundation Year
1725
Status
Open

Administrative Authorities

Regional Board (1948-1974)
London (Teaching)
Management Committee (1948-1974)
Guy's
Regional Authority (1974-1982)
South East Thames
Regional Authority (Post-1982)
South East Thames
District Authority (1974-1982)
Guy's (Teaching)
District Authority (Post-1982)
Lewisham and North Southwark
Pre-1974 County
Surrey/London
Post-1974 County
Greater London
Post-1996 County
Greater London

Status

Pre-1948
Voluntary
Post-1948
NHS

Type

Pre-1948
General, Mental
Pre-1948 information
MNT: 1726 - 1860 Incurable lunatics.
Post-1948
Acute

Other information

Guy's Maudsley Neurosurgical Unit was founded in 1954 and administered by the Governors of Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital, but partly financed by Guy's.

Record locations

  • Guy's Hospital

    Record types

    Administrative
    1974 - 1996

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Brief guide (BG)
    Location
    Local Record Office (LRO)
    Details
    LRO: BG (deeds): London Metropolitan Archives.
    Includes recent administrative records and records of various departments, eg School of Radiography and Department of Pharmacy.

  • Lincolnshire Archives

    Record types

    Administrative
    1800 - 1999

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Brief guide (BG)
    Location
    Local Record Office (LRO)
    Details
    Brief Reports: Very Brief Hospital and Charity Annual Reports.
    Annual Reports 1897 - 1947 SC/PPS/093/24,82

  • London Metropolitan Archives

    Record types

    Administrative
    1617 - 2010
    General
    1722 - 1965
    Finance
    1723 - 1996
    Estates
    1700 - 2010
    Nursing
    1851 - 1968
    Staff
    1739 - 1960
    Admission
    1725 - 1948
    Clinical
    1837 - 1978
    Ephemera
    1800 - 1980
    Pictorial
    1725 - 1970
    Private Papers
    1617 - 1939
    Other
    1861 - 1963

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Brief guide (BG), Catalogue
    Location
    At Repository (AR)
    Details
    AR: CAT: H09/GY.
    Hospital and Charity Annual Reports.
    Something newly accessioned as B99/031
    Papers of Thomas Guy; Includes records of Guy's Hospital Trained Nurses Institution 1892 - 1922; Lying-In Charity; Nuffield House; York Clinic; Nursing School; Medical School, School of Physiotherapy etc
    Annual Reports 1897 - 1947 SC/PPS/093/24,82; Dedds 1700-2010

  • Southwark Local Studies Library

    Record types

    Administrative
    1776 - 1816
    Admission
    1776 - 1816
    Clinical
    1776 - 1816

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Brief guide (BG)
    Location
    At Repository (AR)
    Southwark Archives 5929.
    Records are indexed.
    They are all petitions for admission from the poor of St George the Martyr Parish, Southwark.

  • Wellcome Library

    Record types

    Administrative
    1743 - 1944
    General
    1911 - 1944
    Finance
    1918 - 1930
    Clinical
    1804 - 1874
    Ephemera
    1743 - 1916

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Brief guide (BG)
    Location
    At Repository (AR)
    Details
    Sources leaflet: Individual Hospitals in the UK: London
    pharmacopœia, 1743 MS 6164; Pharmacopaeia, in recipe collection, 1746 MS 7152; List of wards and pharmacopaeia, in papers of Carr family, mid C18th MS 5203; Manuscript testimonial for Dr Oliver Barron signed by senior figures at Guy's, 1803. MS.7326/1; Case records, amongst lecture notes etc, 1804-5 MSS 1682-3; Case notes. 1810 MS 5267; Pharmacopaeia, interleaved (Sir William Withey Gull's copy), 1838 MS 2654; material in Thomas Hodgkin papers PP/HO; 2 cases treated by John Birkett 1873-4 MS 6923; Printed letter to a VAD nurse detailing recent developments at the hospital, 1916 MS 7891/1; W S Handley's notes on diagnosis and surgical techniques, 1894 GC/152: Annual Reports of Bacteriological Department, 1911-44 and two workbooks (1918-30) of medical supplies purchased by the Department GC/130