Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1954-1965 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 volume
Scope and content
New Cross Hospital pupil nurse register, 1954-1965, containing personal details, details or training and examination results.
System of arrangement
1 volume
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Deptford Hospital, Avonley Road, Deptford, was opened on 17 March 1877, by the Metropolitan Asylums Board for admission of pauper patients with smallpox. By 1881, the epidemic was over, but it remained a fever hospital up until 1941. It became the South Eastern Fever Hospital in 1885 and then New Cross General Hospital in 1949. Since c.1964 it has been known as New Cross Hospital. It closed c.1991.
Repository
Custodial history
Transferred from the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, 1999/2000.
Conditions governing access
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 3 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
- New Cross Hospital, Deptford (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: Bosanquet A, 1877-1977 The Centenary of New Cross Hospital, (London: Guy's Health Division, 1977); online The National Archives and Wellcome Trust's Hospital Records Database. Compiled by Alison Field.