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Hospital

Queen Mary's Hospital

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Important information

Information about this hospital might be outdated.

Details

Previous Names
The Queen's Hospital (1917-1929)
Address
Frognal Avenue, Sidcup, DA14 6LT
Current Trust
Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS Trust (since 1993)
Foundation Year
1917
Status
Open

Administrative Authorities

Regional Board (1948-1974)
South East Metropolitan
Management Committee (1948-1974)
Sidcup and Swanley
Regional Authority (1974-1982)
South East Thames
Regional Authority (Post-1982)
South East Thames
District Authority (1974-1982)
Bexley
District Authority (Post-1982)
Bexley
Pre-1974 County
Kent
Post-1974 County
Kent
Post-1996 County
Kent

Status

Pre-1948
Local Authority, Other
Pre-1948 information
OTHER: 1917 - c.1925 War Office, c.1925 - 1929 Ministry of Pensions.
LA: 1930 - 1948 London County Council.
Post-1948
NHS

Type

Pre-1948
Mental, Tuberculosis, Other
Pre-1948 information
OTHER: 1917 - c.1925 Facio-Maxillery.
TB from 1925
MENTAL shellshock cases from 1925
OTHER: convalescent, 1929-1948
Post-1948
Acute

Other information

Originally estalbished as a facial injury hospital in World War I, it became a TB and shellshock hospital in 1925 and was taken over the LCC as an out-county convalescent hospital in 1929. In World War II it was used for military convalescence (in part) and was subsumed into the NHS in 1948. The original huts lasted until 1974 when the new hospital was opened. History of the hospital available. Website for the archives.

Record locations

  • Gillies Archives, Queen Mary's Hospital

    Record types

    Administrative
    1917 - 2001
    General
    1960 - 2001
    Finance
    1951 - 2001
    Estates
    1963 - 1966
    Clinical
    1917 - 1925
    Ephemera
    1917 - 2001
    Pictorial
    1917 - 2001

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Brief guide (BG), Computerised
    Location
    At Repository (AR)
    Details
    Computerised database of case notes only
    Approx 2500 WWI casenotes of facial cases (plastic surgery)

  • London Metropolitan Archives

    Record types

    Administrative
    1917 - 1948
    General
    1918 - 1948
    Finance
    1928 - 1931
    Estates
    1930 - 1947
    Ephemera
    1917 - 1930

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Catalogue
    Details
    AR: CAT: H2/QM See London County Council Central Public Health Committee 1929 - 1934, Hospitals and Medical Services Committee 1934 - 1948, London County Council Public Health, General and Special Hospitals Committee PH/HOSP/3, Westminster Hospital Group H2/QM.