Collection LEH - LEATHERHEAD EMERGENCY HOSPITAL: registers

Key Information

Reference code

LEH

Title

LEATHERHEAD EMERGENCY HOSPITAL: registers

Date(s)

  • 1946 (Creation)
  • 1939-1942 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

3 volumes

Scope and content

Leatherhead Emergency Hospital in-patients registers, 1939-1942, 1946, (LEH/R1-2); Leatherhead Emergency Hospital index of patients admitted, 1942, (LEH/IN1).

System of arrangement

Arranged under 'Registers' and 'Indexes'.

General Information

Name of creator

Biographical history

The Royal Blind School, Leatherhead, was requisitioned by King's College Hospital as a national emergency hospital during World War Two. It was known as Leatherhead Emergency Hospital (Royal Blind School), and only existed under this name from 1939 to 1946. Thereafter it was used to house Chelsea Pensioners until the 1950s when the school reopened.

Custodial history

King's College Hospital.

Conditions governing access

Administrative records are generally closed for 20 years except for published material and some committee and other minutes.

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

Handlist available in the reading room of the College Archives.

Related materials

General administrative records, 1939-1946, are held at Surrey History Centre.

Related descriptions

Alternative identifier(s)

Place access points

People and Organisations

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.

Accession area