Collection NCH - NURSING: New Cross Hospital student nurse records

Key Information

Reference code

NCH

Title

NURSING: New Cross Hospital student nurse records

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.

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

King's College London Archives holds student nurse records of: St Thomas's Hospital, [1950-1980] (Ref:GB0100 KCLCA TH/SN/FP); King's College Hospital School of Nursing, 1885-1998 (Ref:GB0100 KCLCA KH/NL & K/NI/PR); Dulwich Hospital, 1917-1967 (Ref:GB0100 KCLCA DH/FP); St Francis Hospital, 1949-1956, (Ref:GB0100 KCLCA SFH/FP); St Giles Hospital, 1931, 1952-1954 (Ref:GB0100 KCLCA SGH/FP); and St Saviour's Infirmary, [1890]-1931 (Ref:GB0100 KCLCA SSH/FP); Lewisham School of Nursing, 1897-1981 (Ref:GB0100 KCLCA DH/FP); Hither Green Hospital 1955-1967 (Ref:GB0100 KCLCA HGH/FP); St John's Hospital, 1955-1969 (Ref:GB0100 KCLCA SJH/FP); Thomas Guy and Lewisham School of Nursing, 1985-1992 (Ref:GB0100 KCLCA TGL/FP); Nightingale and Guy's College of Nursing, 1991-1993 (Ref:GB0100 KCLCA NG/FP); Guy's Hospital School of Nursing, 1949-1978 (Ref:GB0100 KCLCA GHN/FP).

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: 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.

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