Metadata: London Jewish Hospital
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Barts Health NHS Trust Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Barts Health NHS Trust Archives
- Postal address:
- North Wing St Bartholomew's HospitalWest Smithfield London Greater London United Kingdom EC1A 7BE
- Phone number:
- Telephone: 020 3465 5798
- Web address:
- https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/barts-health-archives
- Reference number:
- RLHLJ
- Title:
- London Jewish Hospital
- Title (official language):
- London Jewish Hospital
- Date(s):
- 1926/1985
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 4.5 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- Administrative records, deeds, financial records, patient records, nursing records and photographs.
- Archival history:
- The records were transferred by the East London Hospital Management Committee to Tower Hamlets Central Library before 1974.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The London Jewish Hospital was first planned in 1907 and opened in 1919. It was extended in 1926 and 1927, and in 1928 had 92 beds. In 1948 it ceased to be a Voluntary Hospital and became part of the National Health Service as a general hospital of 130 beds. From 1948 to 1966 it was managed by the Stepney Group Hospital Management Committee, and from 1966 to 1974 by the East London Group. The London Jewish Hospital was closed in 1979. Records survived the destruction of the office by a bomb during the Second World War.
- Access points: locations:
- London
- Subject terms:
- Health and medical matters
- Health and medical matters--Hospitals
- Access, restrictions:
- Some material is restricted. Please contact the repository in the first instance.
- Finding aids:
- For the online catalogue see http://www.calmhosting01.com/BartsHealth/CalmView/TreeBrowse.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&field=RefNo&key=RLHLJ
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Originally compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Updated by Clare Button, Archivist, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London.
- Royal London Hospital