Collection SGH - NURSING: St Giles Hospital Nursing School student records

Key Information

Reference code

SGH

Title

NURSING: St Giles Hospital Nursing School student records

Date(s)

  • 1952-1966 (Creation)
  • 1931 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

7 volumes, 1 file

Scope and content

St Giles Hospital School of Nursing register of Student Nurses particulars, 1944-1949; Student Nurses Register, 1944-1957; Lectures and Examination Particulars, 1952-1966; and photographs of nursing staff, 1931.

System of arrangement

As outlined in the Scope and Content.

General Information

Name of creator

Biographical history

St Giles Hospital was founded as Camberwell Workhouse Infirmary in 1875. In 1913 it became Camberwell Parish Infirmary. In 1929 a Local Government Act transferred the care of Poor Law hospitals to the local County Councils, who were also given responsibility for the sick in their area. London County Council took over the parish of St Giles. In 1948, when the National Health Service Act came into operation, the St Giles Hospital, (as it had become), came under the administrative control of Camberwell Hospital Management Committee, which included St Francis and Dulwich Hospitals. In 1966 St Giles Hospital joined the King's College Teaching Hospital Group. This resulted in St Giles Hospital Nursing School being merged with King's College Hospital Nursing School.

Archival history

Removed from a variety of administrative stores in King's College Hospital by members of King's College Hospital Nurses League in the late 1970s, when they were kept in a variety of private homes until the transfer to the King's College London Archive in 1985.

Custodial history

Deposited by King's College Hospital Nurses League in 1985.

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

Detailed catalogue available in the reading room of the College Archives.

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); Belgrave Hospital for Children Nursing School records, 1903-1950 (Ref:GB0100 KCLCA BH/FP); Dulwich Hospital, 1917-1967 (Ref:GB0100 KCLCA DH/FP); St Francis Hospital, 1949-1956, (Ref:GB0100 KCLCA SFH/FP); St Saviour's Infirmary, [1890]-1931 (Ref:GB0100 KCLCA SSH/FP); Lewisham School of Nursing, 1897-1981 (Ref:GB0100 KCLCA DH/FP); New Cross Hospital, 1954-1965 (Ref:GB0100 KCLCA NC/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); St Giles Hospital case notes, 1946-1947, (Ref:GB0100 KCLCA SGH/CN).

General administrative records, 1874-1948, nursing records, 1935-1945, and admission and discharge records, 1873-1968, of St Giles Hospital are held at London Metropolitan Archives (Ref: H38/SG); general administrative records, 1923-1924, and admission and discharge records, 1873-1954, are held at St Giles Hospital.

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)

Accession area