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Sources Guide: Individual Hospitals in the UK and Ireland, excluding London

[Excluding medical students' lecture notes and admission tickets, or testimonials etc of individuals applying for posts]

The Wellcome Library is not an approved place of deposit under the Public Records Act for classes of hospital records designated as public records for permanent retention and such records are not held here. The Wellcome/National Archives Hospital Records Database, provides information on the survival and location of hospital records in the UK.

For material on psychiatric hospitals, see leaflet Psychiatry: Institutions
For material on London Hospitals, see leaflet Hospitals: Individual Hospitals in the UK: London

Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue

In some cases the full detailed catalogues of archive collections are not yet in this online database: hard copy versions are available in the Rare Materials Room of the Library and on request to archs+mss@wellcome.ac.uk

Aberdeen Royal Infirmary: papers relating to an article in Medical History about John Memis's dispute with the Infirmary managers, 1764-1958 MS.7314

Bath Casualty Hospital: rules and orders, account book and register of wills in favour of the hospital, 1788-1840 MSS.1094-7

Bedford Hospital: copies of minutes,etc, of Staff Occupational Health Department, 1966-77 GC/136

Bedford Infirmary: Handbill 'To the Nobility, Clergy and Inhabitants of the County and Town of BEDFORD and Neighbourhood', on Grant David Yeats’ leaving the Bedford Infirmary, 1814 MS.8584/2

Birmingham General Hospital: note signed by Oliver Pemberton, house surgeon, requiring that Francis Handley produce an in-patient note; endorsed with request that he be allowed to continue an in-patient, signed by Sir Robert Peel, 1848 MS.7326/4; postcard with a picture of the Hospital, 1903 MS.7578/30

Bonchurch convalescent home, of Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Isle of Wight: register of patients, 1895-7, of Dr James Mann Williamson MS.7510

Brighton & Hove Lying-In Institution: 2 cases of Thomas Frederick Isaacson Blaker as honorary surgeon, 1879 MS.6923

Bristol Eye Hospital: letters of 3rd Earl of Ducie concerning supply of a glass eye by, to local girl, 1915-6 MS.7337/70-1

Bruntisfield and Elsie Inglis Hospitals, Edinburgh: memorabilia and photos, attempts to appoint male consultants, general correspondence, [n.d.]-1950s SA/MWF

Cambridge Research Hospital: Founded by TSP Strangeways, 1905, later became Strangeways Research Laboratory: a small amount of material about its early days and period as hospital for Belgian Officers in World War I, 1905-18 SA/SRL

Castle Hill Hospital, Cottingham: account of nurse training at this tuberculosis sanatorium, late 1940s, in George Hirst’s memoir ‘I was a nurse’ MS.8772

Cheshire Lunatic Asylum: prescription book, with a few clinical notes, 1832-9 MS.1587

City of Gloucester Charitable Infirmary: copy of letter of thanks from James Fin to the Committee, 1789 MS.7704/1

Coldstream Cottage Hospital, Berwickshire: History by Brian J Sproule, 1989 GP/21

Denbighshire Infirmary and General Dispensary: Robert Jones, correspondence and papers, including case-notes and diary entries, relating to his work as House Surgeon and Apothecary, 1826-8 MSS.6061-2

Duchess of York's Hospital for Babies, Manchester: photographs, correspondence, notes, 1920s-60s SA/MWF

Edinburgh Royal Infirmary: Robert Perceval's notes of cases in, 1777-8 MSS.3826-7; case-notes on patients treated by James Gregory, taken by William Godfrey Deane, whilst a student, 1801 MS.6920; casebooks probably compiled by students, 1805-6 and 1827-8 MSS.7410, 6053; notebook of John Grove, including case notes probably relating to patients in when he was a student. c. 1804-14 MS.7817

Epsom and Ewell Cottage Hospital: History by Valerie Cox, 1995 GC/217

General Sea-Bathing Infirmary, Margate: letters from John Anderson, physician to the Infirmary, to the Rev. John Pridden, Secretary of the Infirmary. 1791-8 and n.d. MS.6118

Grange convalescent home, Isle of Wight: register of child patients of Dr James Mann Williamson, 1897-9 MS.7514

Hemingby Hospital, Lincolnshire: account book, signed by Sir Joseph Banks, 1792-1801, and correspondence and papers 1736-1800 MSS.2826, 5215/43-50

Hereford General Hospital: Papers of Richard Henry Hardy, casualty surgeon, including annual reports of the Accident and Emergency Department, 1971-84 GP/12

Kent and Canterbury Hospital: material, 1940-82, including articles on history, among papers of Norman Ashton, pathologist, 1941-5 PP/ASH

Kingston General Hospital Hull: account of nurse training there, late 1940s, in George Hirst’s memoir, ‘I was a nurse’MS.8772

Lady Chichester Hospital (for early nervous and borderline cases among women and children), Brighton and Hove: photos, articles by Helen Boyle, the founder, ephemera, 1900s-50s SA/MWF

Leeds Hospital for Women: Sir Robert Macintosh’s diary of visit to anaesthetics department, 1938 PP/RRM/C.6

Liverpool Infirmary: Henry Peart's notebook including case notes recorded at, 1827-39 and n.d. MS.5263; manuscript poem, 'Thornton Corridor, by JME n.d. MS.7326/7

Manchester Royal Infirmary: pharmacopoeia, including revised list of medical staff, 1847-50 MS.6953; Sir Robert Macintosh’s diaries of visits to department of anaesthetics, 1938, 1956 PP/RRM/C.7, C.27

Meath Hospital: correspondence and papers relating to studies of Robert Jones at, 1826-37 MS.6061

Nayland Sanatorium: cuttings, photos, ephemera and memorabilia, letters of condolence on death of Dr Jane Walker, its founder, and scrapbook, 1900s-50s SA/MWF

Netley Hospital (Royal Victoria Hospital), Hampshire: letter, signed by B Willcox, asserting that construction of the hospital will proceed as planned despite rumours to the contrary, 1859 MS.7326/6 and see RAMC (indexed under 'Royal Victoria Hospital')

New Sussex Hospital, Brighton: photos, ephemera, history of the hospital by Dame Louisa Martindale, 1920s-70s SA/MWF

Newcastle-upon-Tyne Infirmary: casebook of Charles McIvhor Goyder 1879-81 MS.7393

Norfolk and Norwich Hospital: obstetrical casebooks, 1819-25, 1833-43, notebook recording patients admitted to the hospital, 1849-50 by John Green Crosse MSS.1916-7, 5675; notes, including case-notes, c.1820-47, of Robert Hull MSS.2956-7

Northampton General Infirmary: letter from 2nd Earl Spencer appointing a House-Visitor, 1823 MS.7655/158

Norwich Eye Infirmary: Notes on cases of operations by Mr Hull, 1828 MS.2957

Norwich Free Hospital for Incurables: message of support for proposed, signed by many important medical men, mid-C19th MS.7326/8

Pendlebury Children's Hospital, Manchester: Sir Thomas Barlow, journal and notebook containing case notes from, 1878-9 PP/BAR/A/12

Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford: Papers of Sir George Pickering, Regius Professor of Medicine 1956-68 PP/GWP; Papers of Sir Richard Doll, 1969-72 PP/DOL

Redlands Hospital, Glasgow: photos, leaflet, historical note, correspondence 1900s-50s SA/MWF

Royal National Hospital for Consumption, Ventnor, Isle of Wight: registers of tuberculosis patients, 1899-1900, of Dr James Mann Williamson, MS.7512-3

Royal Surrey Hospital, Guildford: diaries of Ernest Thomas Ruston, pathologist, 1935, 1953 and 1956 MSS.4319-21

Scarborough Poor Law Union Hospital: letter, signed by the president of the fishermens' organisation of Fécamp, Normandy, to the president of, thanking him for taking in some Fécamp seamen suffering from cholera and sending a plaque recording the event to be erected in the Hospital, 1867 MS.7548/1

Sheffield General Infirmary: letter concerning, 1843 MS.6127; casebook of Charles McIvhor Goyder 1879-81 MS.7393

Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury: photographs, cuttings, etc relating its work in the treatment and rehabilitation of paraplegics, and the Stoke Mandeville Games for disabled athletes PP/GUT

Sussex County Hospital: 2 cases treated by Edward Latham Ormerod and William Withers Moore, 1872 -3 MS.6923

Walker Dunbar Hospital, Bristol: photograph, historical notes, correspondence, 1950s-60s SA/MWF

Walton Hospital, Liverpool: “An impression of Walton Hospital, Liverpool” during his years as consultant pathologist, 1951-77, by Harold Edgar Vickers, c. 1979 GC/269

West Norfolk and Lynn Hospital: album including numerous voting slips relating to appointment of Fleetwood Buckle as House Surgeon, 1863-4 MS.5656

Wellcome archives
Archives of the Historical Medical Museum include material relating to histories of, and on artefacts relating to, a number of British hospitals WA/HMM