ARCHIVES OF THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN, GREAT ORMOND STREET

摘要

The Hospital for Sick Children was founded at Great Ormond Street in 1852 as the first dedicated hospital for children with in-patient facilities in Britain. Although a number of other children 's hospitals subsequently opened in London and other major cities, Great Ormond Street maintained its reputation both nationally and internationally.This is reflected in its archive, which has unusually comprehensive content both clinical and administrative. Its patient casenotes and supporting series of patient records provide comprehensive evidence from the formative decades in the emergence of modern Paediatrics, and also wider demographic and sociological evidence of the communities from which its patients came. The archive includes administrative records of all the institution's major committees, with supporting correspondence. There arc registers of the clinical and nursing staffs, and extensive 'subject files' on the development of individual departments and clinical activities. There is an accompanying photographic archive of some 3000 images, and a discrete series of early clinical glass plate negatives. There are also archive series relating to the Hospital's former 'Country Branch', initially at Cromwell House, Highgate (1869-1914) and then at Tadworth Court, Surrey (1927-83).