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Hospital

National Heart Hospital

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Details

Previous Names
Hospital for Diseases of the Heart
National Hospital for the Special Treatment of Paralysis, Epilepsy, Nervous and the Primary Stages of Insanity
National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart and Paralysis
National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart
Address
Westmoreland Street, London, W1M 8BA
Previous Locations
67 Margaret Street (1857 - c.1869)
85 Newman Street, Oxford Street (c.1869 - 1874)
32 Soho Square (1874 - 1914)
Foundation Year
1857
Status
Closed (since 1990)

Administrative Authorities

Regional Board (1948-1974)
London (Teaching)
Management Committee (1948-1974)
National Heart and Chest
Regional Authority (1974-1982)
Postgraduate Teaching
Regional Authority (Post-1982)
Special
District Authority (1974-1982)
National Heart and Chest
District Authority (Post-1982)
National Heart and Chest (Postgraduate Teaching)
Pre-1974 County
Middlesex/London
Post-1974 County
Greater London

Status

Pre-1948
Voluntary
Post-1948
NHS

Type

Pre-1948
Mental, Other
Pre-1948 information
OTHER: Cardiac.
Post-1948
Other
Post-1948 information
OTHER: Cardiac.

Other information

None

Record locations

  • London Metropolitan Archives

    Record types

    Administrative
    1902 - 1947
    General
    1902 - 1947
    Clinical
    1907 - 1963

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Brief guide (BG)
    Location
    At Repository (AR)
    Details
    AR: CAT: H25.
    AR: See also COS Enquiry Department 1872 - 1940 A/FWA/C/D11/1-3 and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London A/KE/253/9/8.
    SC/PPS/093
    The clinical records represent a 12% sample.
    Annual Reports - Annual Report Collection SC/PPS/093/42
    SC/PPS/093/84
  • Royal London Hospital Archives Centre and Museum

    Record types

    Administrative
    1868 - 1971
    General
    1868 - 1971
    Ephemera
    1925 - 1937

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Brief guide (BG), Catalogue
    Location
    At Repository (AR), Other
    Transferred to Royal London, 2007