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Details: Lewisham Hospital, London

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Name

  

Present name

Lewisham Hospital 

Previous name(s)

Lewisham Workhouse (1817 - 1894)  

Address

High Street London SE13 6LH 

Foundation Year

1817 

Closed

No 

Administrative authorities

Regional Hospital Board (1948-74)

South East Metropolitan 

Hospital Management Committee (1948-74)

Lewisham Group 

Regional Health Authority (1974-82)

South East Thames 

Regional Health Authority (1982- )

South East Thames 

District Health Authority (1974-82)

Lewisham 

District Health Authority (1982- )

Lewisham and North Southwark 

Current Trust

Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust 

Trust From

1993 

County (before 1974)

Kent/London 

County (1974-1996)

Greater London 

County (after 1996)

Greater London 

Status

Pre 1948

Poor Law, Local Authority

Post 1948

NHS

Type

Pre 1948

General

Post 1948

Acute

Other information

Opened as a workhouse in 1817 and hospital in 1894. Cholera cases from 1867 and Lunatics from 1897.

Records can be found at:
notes

  London Metropolitan Archives

Record type

Date range

Administrative

1894 - 1948

   General

1894 - 1948

   Admission & Discharge

1894 - 1922

   Staff

1894 - 1930

Finding aids

Finding aids

Catalogue

Location of finding aids

At Repository(AR)

Details

At Repository: See Lewisham Board of Guardians LeBG, London County Council Central Public Health Committee 1929 - 1934, and Hospitals and Medical Services Committee 1934 - 1948.

King's College Archives

Record type

Date range

Administrative

1960 - 1990

   Nursing

1960 - 1990

Finding aids

Finding aids

Brief Guide(BG)

Location of finding aids

At Repository(AR), Other

Details

AIM25

Notes

KCLCA LH/FP & LH/F

notes

  Lewisham Local Studies Centre

Record type

Date range

Administrative

1832 - 1977

   General

1870 - 1937

   Finance

1842 - 1875

   Estates

1832 - 1977

   Pictorial

1881 - 1971

Clinical & Patients

1944 - 1970

Finding aids

Finding aids

Catalogue

Location of finding aids

Local Record Office (LRO)

Details

 
 
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