Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1955-1967 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
2 volumes
Scope and content
Registers of student nurses at Hither Green Hospital, 1955-1967, including names, personal details, dates of training, ward allocation and examination results.
System of arrangement
Chronological
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
The Park Fever Hospital, at Hither Green, South East London, opened 1897. Its name was changed in 1957 to Hither Green Hospital. The hospital closed in 1997. Student nurses at Hither Green Hospital appear to have worked at St John's Hospital, Lewisham, as well as at Hither Green during their training.
Repository
Custodial history
Transferred from the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, 1999/2000.
Conditions governing access
Administrative records are generally closed for 20 years except for published material and some committee and other minutes.
Files containing personal data are closed for 80 years and sensitive personal data 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 a Detailed catalogue in which this collection is item 1 available on-line and in hard copy in the College Archives reading room, King's College London.
Related materials
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Hither Green Hospital, Hither Green (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 Public Records Office Hospital Records Database http://hospitalrecords.pro.gov.uk; Compiled by Alison Field