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Details: Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol

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Name

  

Present name

Bristol Royal Infirmary 

Address

Marlborough Street Bristol BS2 8HW 

Foundation Year

1736 

Closed

No 

Administrative authorities

Regional Hospital Board (1948-74)

Provinces (Teaching) 

Hospital Management Committee (1948-74)

United Bristol 

Regional Health Authority (1974-82)

South Western 

Regional Health Authority (1982- )

South Western 

District Health Authority (1974-82)

Bristol (Teaching) 

District Health Authority (1982- )

Bristol and Weston 

Current Trust

United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust 

Trust From

1991 

County (before 1974)

Bristol 

County (1974-1996)

Avon 

County (after 1996)

Bristol 

Status

Pre 1948

Voluntary

Post 1948

NHS

Type

Pre 1948

General

Post 1948

Acute

Other information

Daughter institution - Bristol Royal Infirmary Surgery and Dispensary. Amalgamated with Bristol General Hospital, Sept 1939, the group to be known as Bristol Royal Hospital; within the group was known as the Royal Infirmary branch.

Records can be found at:
notes

  Bristol Record Office

Record type

Date range

Administrative

1736 - 1980

   General

1736 - 1959

   Finance

1736 - 1944

   Nursing

1870 - 1911

   Admission & Discharge

1737 - 1880

   Staff

1870 - 1911

   Ephemera

1736 - 1980

   Pictorial

1899 - 1949

   Private Papers

1899 - 1949

   Other

1796 - 1812

Clinical & Patients

1836 - 1951

Finding aids

Finding aids

Catalogue, Card Index

Location of finding aids

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

Details

AR: CAT: Accessions 35893, 38990. AR: CI: Richard Smith's memoirs. NRA: 27824 Bristol Health Authority.

Notes

Private papers of R Smith, elected to Infirmary 1796, Senior Surgeon 1812.
 
 
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