Key Information
Reference code
Title
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.
Repository
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
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Leatherhead Emergency Hospital (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.