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- 1902-1948 (Creation)
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218 volumes
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Belgrave Hospital for Children, a voluntary hospital, was founded in 1866. New buildings were constructed at no 1 Clapham Road, London SW9 (Kennington, Lambeth) between 1899 and 1926 to an innovative design. Under the National Health Service Act (1946), in 1948 the hospital was amalgamated with King's College Hospital as part of the King's College Hospital Group (a teaching group managed by a Board of Governors), but remained a children's hospital. The Belgrave Hospital for Children closed after a new hospital, the Variety Club Children's Hospital, opened in 1985. The building was restored in the 1990s after some years of neglect.
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Case notes were transferred to the Royal College of Physicians in 1965-1966.
GB 0100 KCLCA BH 1902-1948 Collection (fonds) 218 volumes Belgrave Hospital for Children , London
Belgrave Hospital for Children, a voluntary hospital, was founded in 1866. New buildings were constructed at no 1 Clapham Road, London SW9 (Kennington, Lambeth) between 1899 and 1926 to an innovative design. Under the National Health Service Act (1946), in 1948 the hospital was amalgamated with King's College Hospital as part of the King's College Hospital Group (a teaching group managed by a Board of Governors), but remained a children's hospital. The Belgrave Hospital for Children closed after a new hospital, the Variety Club Children's Hospital, opened in 1985. The building was restored in the 1990s after some years of neglect.
Case notes were transferred to the Royal College of Physicians in 1965-1966.
In 1984 the transfer of papers, including case notes of the Belgrave Hospital, from the Royal College of Physicians to King's College London Archives was agreed. In 1990 Martin Mottram retrieved the minute book from the derelict hospital and gave it to King's College London Archives. The admissions register was retrieved from the derelict hospital by Patricia Methven, King's College Archivist.
Records of the Belgrave Hospital for Children, 1902-1948, comprising minutes of the medical sub-committee, 1902-1921 (1 volume); case notes, 1904-1948 (216 volumes); admissions register, 1929-1931, including an index (1 volume).
Case notes are arranged chronologically.
Case notes touching on the privacy of named individuals are closed for 100 years. Otherwise records are open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Photocopies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.
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A typescript list giving the dates, personnel (to 1937) and (from 1937) reference numbers associated with the case notes is available in the reading room at King's College London Archives.
King's College London Archives holds the records of King's College Hospital (Ref: KH), some sub-fonds of which include material relating to the Belgrave Hospital after amalgamation in 1948.
London Metropolitan Archives hold annual reports of the Belgrave Hospital, 1898-1947 (Ref: SC/PPS/093/03,82).
Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: AIM25 description of the records of King's College Hospital; lists of King's College Hospital records (Ref: KH) at King's College London Archives; online Public Record Office and Wellcome Trust's Hospital Records Database at http://hospitalrecords.pro.gov.uk; English Hospitals 1660-1948, ed Harriet Richardson (Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, Swindon, 1998), pp 112-114. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Feb 2001 Belgrave Hospital for Children , London Documents Health services Hospital management Hospitals Information sources Medical institutions Medical records Patients Social sciences Social welfare Primary documents
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
In 1984 the transfer of papers, including case notes of the Belgrave Hospital, from the Royal College of Physicians to King's College London Archives was agreed. In 1990 Martin Mottram retrieved the minute book from the derelict hospital and gave it to King's College London Archives. The admissions register was retrieved from the derelict hospital by Patricia Methven, King's College Archivist.
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Records of the Belgrave Hospital for Children, 1902-1948, comprising minutes of the medical sub-committee, 1902-1921 (1 volume); case notes, 1904-1948 (216 volumes); admissions register, 1929-1931, including an index (1 volume).
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Case notes are arranged chronologically.
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Case notes touching on the privacy of named individuals are closed for 100 years. Otherwise records are open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction
Photocopies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.
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- English
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- Latin
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English
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King's College London Archives holds the records of King's College Hospital (Ref: KH), some sub-fonds of which include material relating to the Belgrave Hospital after amalgamation in 1948.
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A typescript list giving the dates, personnel (to 1937) and (from 1937) reference numbers associated with the case notes is available in the reading room at King's College London Archives.
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London Metropolitan Archives hold annual reports of the Belgrave Hospital, 1898-1947 (Ref: SC/PPS/093/03,82).
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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
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