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- 1852-1978 (Creation)
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13 volumes
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Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children was founded on its Bloomsbury site in 1852, as the Hospital for Sick Children. It became part of the National Health Service in 1948.
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GOS/7 1852-1978 Sub fonds of Great Ormond Street Hospital Archives 13 volumes Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children was founded on its Bloomsbury site in 1852, as the Hospital for Sick Children. It became part of the National Health Service in 1948.
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street Visitors' Books, GOS/7/1/1-7, covering 1852-1956; GOS/7/1/8 Visitors' Book (for major events and Royal and political Visitors), 1952-1978; GOS/7/1/9, Visitors' Book for South Wing Foundation Stone Ceremony, 1890, with notes on the occasion by Charles Barry Junior, Architect.
Visiting Governor's Reports, GOS/7/2/1-4, 1852-1962.
13 volumes, arranged chronologically.
The records are open for research.
Photocopying and photography of the records permitted at the discretion of the archivist.
English
The archive catalogue is available on the Museum and Archives Service computer, and in typescript form.
Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Andrea Tanner, The Role of the Hospital Visitor at a Victorian Children's Hospital, in Graham Mooney and J.onathan Reinarz (eds) Permeable Walls: Historical Perspectives on hospital visiting', Clio Medica. (Amsterdam, 2009).
Entered by Andrea Tanner
November 2010 Hospitals Hospital administration Paediatrics Great Ormond Street Hospital x Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street x Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust x The Hospital for Sick Children x The Hospital for Children Medical sciences Medical institutions Health services
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Great Ormond Street Hospital
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Great Ormond Street Visitors' Books, GOS/7/1/1-7, covering 1852-1956; GOS/7/1/8 Visitors' Book (for major events and Royal and political Visitors), 1952-1978; GOS/7/1/9, Visitors' Book for South Wing Foundation Stone Ceremony, 1890, with notes on the occasion by Charles Barry Junior, Architect.
Visiting Governor's Reports, GOS/7/2/1-4, 1852-1962.
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13 volumes, arranged chronologically.
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The records are open for research.
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Photocopying and photography of the records permitted at the discretion of the archivist.
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- English
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- Latin
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English
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The archive catalogue is available on the Museum and Archives Service computer, and in typescript form.
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- English