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Details: York County Hospital, York

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Name

  

Present name

York County Hospital 

Address

Monkgate York YO3 7PG 

Foundation Year

1740 

Closed

Yes 

Closure year

1977 

Administrative authorities

Regional Hospital Board (1948-74)

Leeds 

Hospital Management Committee (1948-74)

York (A) and Tadcaster 

Regional Health Authority (1974-82)

Yorkshire 

Regional Health Authority (1982- )

Not Applicable 

District Health Authority (1974-82)

York 

District Health Authority (1982- )

Not Applicable 

County (before 1974)

Yorkshire 

County (1974-1996)

North Yorkshire 

County (after 1996)

Not applicable 

Status

Pre 1948

Voluntary

Post 1948

NHS

Type

Pre 1948

General

Post 1948

Acute

Other information

There was an amalgamation with York Eye Institution in 1877. Pre-convalescent annexe at Deighton Grove 1947 - 1955.

Records can be found at:
notes

  North Yorkshire County Record Office

Record type

Date range

Clinical & Patients

1908 - 1955

Finding aids

Finding aids

Catalogue

Location of finding aids

At Repository(AR), Local Record Office (LRO), Other

Details

LRO: CAT: York City Archives. OTHER: CAT: York District Hospital.
notes

  York University: Borthwick Institute of Historical Research

Record type

Date range

Administrative

1742 - 1977

   General

1742 - 1970

   Finance

1823 - 1948

   Estates

1751 - 1969

   Nursing

1900 - 1956

   Admission & Discharge

1829 - 1880

   Staff

1944 - 1950

   Ephemera

1829 - 1963

   Pictorial

1900 - 1959

Clinical & Patients

1908 - 1977

Finding aids

Finding aids

Catalogue

Location of finding aids

At Repository(AR), Other

Details

OTHER: CAT: Compiled by K Webb, incorporates material split between York City Archives, York Society Library and York Health Archives, now transferred to the Borthwick Institute

North Yorkshire County Library, York Central Library

Record type

Date range

Finding aids

Finding aids

Location of finding aids

National Register of Archives (NRA)

Details

York County Hospital

Record type

Date range

Administrative

1742 - 1939

   General

1742 - 1939

   Pictorial

1896 - 1905

Finding aids

Finding aids

Catalogue

Location of finding aids

Local Record Office (LRO), Other

Details

LRO: CAT: York City Archives. OTHER: CAT: North Yorkshire County Record Office.

Notes

Hospital now closed: these records possibly now at York University Borthwick Institute of Historical Research
 
 
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