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Details: St Thomas' Hospital, London

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Name

 

Present name

St Thomas' Hospital 

Previous name(s)

Infirmary of the Augustinian Priory of St Mary Overy, c. 1106-c. 1215; 5th London (City of London) General Hospital (military section of 200 beds only), 1915-1919  

Address

Lambeth Palace Road London SE1 7EH 

Previous location

Long Southwark, later known as Borough High Street, Southwark (c.1200 - 1862)
Surrey Gardens, Newington (1862 - 1871); Hydestyle nr Godalming 1941-1945 (World War II evacuation)






Foundation Year

c1106 

Closed

No 

Administrative authorities

Regional Hospital Board (1948-74)

London (Teaching) 

Hospital Management Committee (1948-74)

St Thomas' 

Regional Health Authority (1974-82)

South East Thames 

Regional Health Authority (1982- )

South East Thames 

District Health Authority (1974-82)

St Thomas' (Teaching) 

District Health Authority (1982- )

West Lambeth 

Current Trust

Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital NHS Trust 

Trust From

1993 

County (before 1974)

Surrey/London 

County (1974-1996)

Greater London 

County (after 1996)

Greater London 

Status

Pre 1948

Voluntary, Military, OTHER: c.1200 - 1540 Monastic (Augustinian canons), 1551 - 1948 Endowed royal hospital. MIL: during First World War 200 beds set aside for sick and wounded of the armed forces, and in 1915 this became the 5th London (City of London) General Hospital, until 1919; 200 beds again set aside for military use, 1939-1945

Post 1948

NHS

Type

Pre 1948

General

Post 1948

Acute

Other information

Parent institution was the Priory of St Mary Overy (or Southwark Priory).

Records can be found at:

notes

  Wellcome Library

Record type

Date range

Administrative

1730 - 1972

   General

1825 - 1948

   Finance

1732 - 1770

   Ephemera

1730 - 1747

   Other

1766 - 1972

Clinical & Patients

1730 - 1914

Finding aids

Finding aids

Catalogue

Location of finding aids

At Repository(AR)

Details

Catalogues in A2A

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Notes

St Thomas's Hospital: clinical notes and Catalogus Medicamentorum, c.1730 MS 4382; Pharmacopœia, 1743. MS 6164; Pharmacopœia, in recipe collection, 1746 MS 5752; Pharmacopœia, in collection of notes etc by John Parkinson of Wandsworth., c.1747, MS 6148; Account book of Thomas Baker, Surgeon from 1739, naming apprentices, dressers and students., 1732-70 MS 5781; John Coakley Lettsom: fragment of autobiography including life as medical student at St Thomas's, 1766-7 MS 3245; Papers on ownership of anatomical collection, 1825-9 MS 7804; Theodore Dyke Acland , catalogue of specimens in Physiological Laboratory, c.1880, Case notes including cases at St Thomas's, 1893-1914 MSS 839, 845 ; material in Thomas Hodgkin papers PP/HO; Papers of William Walters Sargant include memoranda and correspondence re administration of the Department of Pyschological Medicine, 1948, history of the department, 1948-65; and records of Sargant's research there 1948-72 PP/WWS

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  London Metropolitan Archives

Record type

Date range

Administrative

1200 - 2001

   General

1265 - 1998

   Finance

1559 - 1966

   Estates

1200 - 1983

   Nursing

1844 - 1996

   Admission & Discharge

1672 - 1957

   Staff

1871 - 1999

   Ephemera

1665 - 1999

   Pictorial

1542 - 1996

   Private Papers

1680 - 1996

   Other

1619 - 2001

Clinical & Patients

1870 - 1984

Finding aids

Finding aids

Brief Guide(BG), Catalogue, Computerised

Location of finding aids

At Repository(AR), National Register of Archives (NRA)

Details

AR: CAT: HO1/ST, HO1/L/B/24. Records of school children treated under the Education Act 1907 s.13 1b, 1909 - 1949 are in London County Council Public Health School Health Services Committee PH/SHS/2.

Catalogues in A2A

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Notes

Includes records of Medical School, Nightingale School, Nightingale Collection, papers of Henry Bonham-Carter, Physiotherapy School, St John's House, St John's and St Thomas's House, St Thomas's House Annual Reports 1897 - 1947 SC/PPS/093/71,85; Almoner's and Social Work Dept; Ladies Guild/Friends; various specialist departments; Nurses Recreation Society; minutes, papers, case books 1973-1984 reported in NRA Accessions to Repositories 2009

King's College Archives

Record type

Date range

Administrative

1950 - 1980

   Nursing

1950 - 1980

Finding aids

Finding aids

Brief Guide(BG)

Location of finding aids

At Repository(AR), Other

Details

AIM25

Catalogues in A2A

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=074-hst1&cid=0External website - link opens in a new window

Notes

KCLCA TH/SN/FP

notes

  Southwark Local Studies Library

Record type

Date range

Administrative

1803 - 1821

   Admission & Discharge

1803 - 1821

Clinical & Patients

1803 - 1821

Finding aids

Finding aids

Brief Guide(BG)

Location of finding aids

At Repository(AR)

Details

Catalogues in A2A

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=074-hst1&cid=0External website - link opens in a new window

Notes

Southwark Archives 5930. Records are indexed. They are all petitions for admission from the poor of St George the Martyr Parish, Southwark.

notes

  Royal College of Surgeons of England

Record type

Date range

Administrative

1710 - 1870

   Private Papers

1710 - 1838

   Other

1775 - 1870

Clinical & Patients

1710 - 1838

Finding aids

Finding aids

Location of finding aids

Details

Catalogues in A2A

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Notes

Clinical notebook of Thomas Wallace includes notes of cases; memoranda and notes on patients by Sir John Simon, 1838; lectures given by Henry Cline, Joseph Else, Sydney Jones, Astley Cooper, Sir John Simon

 
 
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