GOS/7 - Visitors' Records

Identity area

Reference code

GOS/7

Title

Visitors' Records

Date(s)

  • 1852-1978 (Creation)

Level of description

Extent and medium

13 volumes

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

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.

Archival history

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

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Great Ormond Street Hospital

Content and structure area

Scope and content

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.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

13 volumes, arranged chronologically.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

The records are open for research.

Conditions governing reproduction

Photocopying and photography of the records permitted at the discretion of the archivist.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

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English

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Finding aids

The archive catalogue is available on the Museum and Archives Service computer, and in typescript form.

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Great Ormond Street Hospital Archives

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Dates of creation revision deletion

Language(s)

  • English

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