Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1896-1934 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
9 volumes
Scope and content
Registers of Constance Road Workhouse/Institution, 1896-1934, consisting of 'Register of lunatics No 2', 1896; 'Register of lunatics No 3', 1896-1897; 'Register of lunatics No 5', 1897-1898; ''Register of lunatics No 18', 1910; 'Register of lunatics No 23', 1915-1916; register of 'Examination of alleged lunatics H & B', 1921-1934; 'Register of articles etc found on inmates', 1912-1922; 'Register of articles etc found on inmates', 1922-1928; register of deaths, 1929-1933.
System of arrangement
Arranged in 9 volumes as above.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
The Constance Road Workhouse/Institution was founded in the Parish of St Giles in Camberwell, and existed from 1892 to 1937. In 1914 the title 'Workhouse' was changed to 'Institution'. In 1929 a Local Government Act transferred the care of Poor Law hospitals to the local County Councils, who were also given responsibility for the sick in their area. London County Council took over the parish of St Giles. The Institution became St Francis Hospital in 1937.
Repository
Custodial history
King's College Hospital Library. 2nd accession, November 2012
Conditions governing access
Administrative records are generally closed for 20 years except for published material and some committee and other minutes.
Files containing sensitive personal data are closed for 100 years from the date of the most recent document in the file.
Where open, access is subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This summary guide and detailed catalogue
Related materials
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Constance Road Workhouse, 1892-1914 (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.
Script(s)
Archivist's note
Sources: online The National Archives and Wellcome Trust's Hospital Records Database. Compiled by Annabel Dodds.