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Sources Guide: Individual Hospitals in the UK: 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

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

Annie McCall Hospital (formerly Clapham Maternity): letter, 1946 SA/MWF

Belgrave Hospital for Children: letter thanking Clinton Thomas Dent for service as Surgeon, 1904 MS.7288/2

Bermondsey Medical Mission: photos, correspondence, publications, 1940s-60s SA/MWF

Brompton Hospital (formerly Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest): invitation to dinner at opening, 1847 MS.7280/3; case notes by Theodore Dyke Acland, 1893-1914 MS.845; photograph of inspection of tonal physical class for children, c. 1937 SA/CSP/Q.1; Sir Robert Macintosh, diaries of visits to anaesthetics department, Sep 1938 PP/RRM/C.8

Central London Ophthalmic Hospital: draft announcement to the Times concerning enlargement of medical staff, n.d. MS.7826/29

Central Middlesex Hospital: Sir Francis Avery–Jones’s file, 1961-95, mainly on Gastroenterology Department and Research Unit GC/198

Charing Cross Hospital: Papers of Hugh Jolly, Consultant Paediatrician 1960-83 GC/143

Clapham Maternity Hospital: file in Medical Women’s Federation archive SA/MWF/C.30

Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich: Papers of Sir Patrick Manson, 1892-1900 WTI/RST; Papers of Robert George Ranyard West, Assistant Physician 1930-39 PP/RRW

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital (formerly New Hospital): historical articles and early memorabilia, centenary items, files on campaign to keep open, 1900s-80s SA/MWF

Florence Nightingale Hospital: photograph, booklets re history SA/MWF

German Hospital, Dalston: pharmacopaeia, 1845, case notes, 1890s-1950s, photographs of patients, 1890s-1900s, questions arising at time of Second World War about staff, name, etc PP/FPW; material relating to hospital during Second World War, including bomb damage, photos of hospital occasions, etc, 1940s-50s PP/RAS

Guy's Hospital: pharmacopœia, 1743 MS.6164; Pharmacopœia, in recipe collection, 1746 MS.7152; List of wards and pharmacopœia, in papers of Carr family, mid C18th MS.5203; Manuscript testimonial for Dr Oliver Barron signed by senior figures at Guy's, 1803 MS.7326/1; Case records, amongst lecture notes etc, 1804-5 MSS.1682-3; Case notes, 1810 MS.5267; Pharmacopœia, interleaved (Sir William Withey Gull's copy), 1838 MS.2654; material in Thomas Hodgkin papers PP/HO; 2 cases treated by John Birkett 1873-4 MS.6923; Dental school, anæsthetists' minute book, 1889-95 MS.5977; Printed letter to a VAD nurse detailing recent developments at the hospital, 1916 MS.7891/1; W S Handley's notes on diagnosis and surgical techniques, 1894 GC/152; Annual Reports of Bacteriological Department, 1911-44 and two workbooks (1918-30) of medical supplies purchased by the Department GC/130; Robert Henry Stewart Thompson’s files relating to his association with, 1935-67 PP/RHT/A.7; photographs, of Snowsfield Hut, new physiotherapy centre, c. 1967 and physiotherapists working with patients, 1972 SA/CSP/Q.1; materials for proposed, unpublished, history – ‘The Guy’s Story: Personality of a Hospital’, by David Stafford-Clark, 1978–87 PP/DSC/B.3/4; Professor Cyril Chantler: ‘Guy’s Hospital: A Case Study, 1985-1988’ MS.8610

Hammersmith Hospital: Papers of Constance Wood as Director of Radium Beam Therapy Research and head of Radiotherapy Department, 1941–62, including the development of the medical cyclotron GC/95; Journals, reports, correspondence etc of John Gallop relating to the building of the medical cyclotron, 1949–56 GC/160; Papers of Sir Allen Daley while on the Board of Governors’ Finance Committee, 1957-64 PP/AWD; Brenda Morrison’s ‘Reminiscences of a woman doctor’ includes work at Hammersmith Hospital from 1949 GC/240; research in obstetric analgesia under auspices of National Birthday Trust Fund, 1952–7 SA/NBT; Sir John McMichael’s file relating to his association with, 1955 PP/JMM/E/1; Mary Catterall’s papers relating to her work as Consultant Radiologist, in charge of the Fast Neutron Clinic, 1970–87 PP/CAT

Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond St: casebook of Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake 1891-2 MS.5794; Philip Rainsford Evans’ papers reflect his work at the hospital, and include 2 files on its history PP/PRE; photographs of opening of hydrotherapy pool, 1965 SA/CSP/Q.1 see also papers of Sir Thomas Barlow PP/BAR;

Infants Hospital, Westminster: Autobiography of E C Pritchard, Medical Director, 1922-35 GC/49

King's College Hospital: gynaecological notes of Charles Kingsley Ackland, 1882 MS.7209; papers relating to Stanley Browne’s time as a medical student during the early 1930s WTI/SGB

Lambeth Hospital: Material on 1906 training of nurse Norah Woodman, plus Lambeth Infirmary/Hospital material, including annual reports, 1921-38 GC/56

Lister Institute: One file concerning a proposed research hospital connected with, 1918-21 SA/LIS

London Dispensary: material concerning Thomas Hodgkin's service to PP/HO

(Royal) London Hospital: letter asking that leeches be put on the abdomen of a patient, 1897 MS.7294/2; Papers of Donald Hunter', 1915-65, include illustrated case notes, correspondence re student courses, wartime conditions, notes for history, photographs, from the hospital PP/HUN; physiotherapy students, c. 1965 SA/CSP/Q.1

London Temperance Hospital: casualty room card, 1916 MS.7280/5; records of nursing training at, plus brochure, c. 1914-25 GC/258

Marie Curie Hospital, photographs, articles, memorabilia, reports, correspondence, visitors' book, 1930s-50s SA/MWF

Metropolitan Ear Nose and Throat Hospital: Sir Robert Macintosh’s diaries of visits to anaesthetics department, Sep 1938 PP/RRM/C.8

Metropolitan Hospital: Lyon Falkener's application for post at, notebooks on administration of anaesthetics in operations, photographs, c. 1896-7 MSS.6803-5, 6807-8

Middlesex Hospital: letter by Henry Warburton, radical politician, concerning hospital constitution, 1829 MS.7337/105; Noel Gordon Harris’s files relating to his period at the Middlesex, 1938-59 PP/NGH

Mile End Hospital: survey of expectations and experience of day care abortion service, 1979 PP/SIM

Mothers' Hospital, Clapton: correspondence and historical note, 1947 SA/MWF

National Heart Hospital: Sir James Keith Ross’s files, mainly to do with early heart transplantation operations, 1960s GC/238

National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square: W H McMenemy's abstracts of minutes, 1859-1964 GC/83

New Hospital for Women: case notes of Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake, 1895 MS.5795 see also SA/MWF

Northcourt Hospital for Sick Children: testimonial to William Henry Ash as a member of the committee of management and a fund-raiser, c.1925 MS.7903/2

Northwick Park Hospital: photographs of physiotherapist and patients exercising in rehabilitation unit, c. 1975 SA/CSP/Q.1

Paddington General Hospital: photographs of physiotherapy at, c. 1965 SA/CSP/Q.1

Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum, Bromley by Bow: Nurse training notebooks of E J Thomas, c. 1905-10 GC/239

Putney Hospital: materials relating to Campaign Against Closure 1979-2004 MS.8173

Queen Charlotte's Hospital: research projects at, 1930s, Lady Rhys-Williams's files as governor, 1929-39 SA/NBT; Leonard Colebrook's research notebooks on the spread and control of infection, 1935-9 PP/COL

Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton: photographs of physiotherapists working with amputees, 1972 SA/CSP/Q.1

Royal Belgrave Lying-In Hospital: letter from a royal functionary, explaining that Queen Adelaide is unable to become a patron, 1833 MS.7326/2

Royal Free Hospital: letter concerning anniversary festival, 1850 MS.7326/5; Casebook kept by Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake includes this institution, 1891-2 MS.5794; Papers re nursing career, c.1914-25, of Elizabeth Batten, SRN, at the Royal Free and elsewhere, including photographs GC/80; Photographs taken in Department of Physical Medicine, c. 1948, , and of short-wave diathermy, c. 1967 SA/CSP/Q.1 see also SA/MWF

St Bartholomew's Hospital: receipts for rents of tenements in Smithfield, 1659- 65 MS.5257; Pharmacopœia, 1743 MS.6164; Typescript extracts from Court minutes of 1747 and 1821, made by Sir D'Arcy Power, c.1900 MS.627; Letter by George North, numismatist and antiquary, to Dr Anthony Askew, Physician of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, referring to Rahere, founder of St. Bartholomew's, 1756 MS.7368/5; Clinical notes probably by a House Physician, including patients with gun-shot wounds inflicted during the Gordon Riots. 1777-81 MS.4337; Letter sending patient for examination, 1817 MS.5258; Lease of premises in Smithfield to James Arnold, surgical instrument manufacturer, 1845 MS.5272; Miscellaneous photographs, largely group portraits, 1893, n.d. MS.6809; Letter by Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton arguing for research laboratory, 1900 MS.5970; Photographs of nurses in Humphry Rolleston's album, 1879-88 MS.6122/83,84,141; Clinical records by ECC Bramwell of four cases in Casualty Ward, 1887 MS.1342; student lecture notes and case notes, of Ernest George Pringle, 1900–2 GC/34; Lord Horder’s diaries of patient appointments, 1907–55 GP/31; Papers of Sir Anthony Bowlby, including correspondence re appeal for reconstruction, 1900-5 GC/181; Records of psychotherapy group for dermatology patients run by S H Foulkes, 1946-50 PP/SHF

St Christopher's Hospice: ephemera, 1960s SA/MWF

St Francis Hospital, Dulwich: photographs of physiotherapy and remedial gymnastics, c.1940 SA/CSP/Q.1

St George's Hospital, Hyde Park: 2 receipts recording payments towards the support of the hospital, 1760, 1844 MS.7903/3-4; Printed and illustrated ticket entering Thomas Mitchell as a student at St. George's Hospital, London, signed by various medical figures including the anatomist John Hunter, 1786 MS.7847/15; Henry Vandyke Carter, letters from while medical student, 1848-53, journals while medical student and Demonstrator in Anatomy, 1848-52, 1857-8 MSS.5810, 5816, 5818; Casebook for which Heywood Smith awarded prize for Clinical Surgery, 1863 MS.4635; Charles Hunter notice of election as Governor, 1863 MS.6892; 'Reminiscences of the Hospital at the corner' by Pamela Clewett, probationer nurse, 1939-45 GC/41

St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin: case notes by James Startin. 1877-80 MS.6026; Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake, notes on Dr Dockrell's Clinical Demonstrations on skin diseases, 1890-1 MS.908

St Mark’s Hospital: Papers of Sir Allen Daley while on the Board of Governors’ Finance Committee, 1957-64 PP/AWD; Sir Francis Avery Jones’ file re St Mark’s, 1972–7 GC/198

St Mary's Hospital: notes on three medical cases taken by Arthur Cyril Ransome, 1892 MS.5983; Papers of Lord Moran, Dean of the Medical School, including some material re development of the hospital and relations with the medical school, 1920-45 PP/CMW; Files relating to co-education and exclusion of female medical students, 1924-6 SA/MWF; Leonard Colebrook: diary and some other material relating to his period at, 1920s-40s PP/COL; Papers of G W Pickering, Professor of Medicine 1939-56 PP/GWP; Peter Karl Lewin (b. 1935): memoir, 'A Chameleon of Sorts: Autobiographical Vignettes', includes account of his life as a medical student, also post-qualification at Paddington Green and other hospitals in the London area MS.8369; Dr John Dalziel Wyndham Pearce (1905-1994), Clinical psychiatrist: file of letters re appointment to posts and membership of Board of Governors, 1948–70 GC/192

St Marylebone Infirmary (later St Charles's Hospital): 'Notes on Marylebone Infirmary 1910-1941' by Basil Hood , Medical Superintendent GC/21 [Scrapbook is in the Iconographic Collections of the Wellcome Library]

St Stephen’s Hospital: photographs of physiotherapy at SA/CSP/Q.1

St Thomas's Hospital: clinical notes and Catalogus Medicamentorum, c.1730 MS.4382; Pharmacopœia, 1743 MS.6164; Pharmacopœia, in recipe collection, 1746 MS.5752; Pharmacopœia, in collection of notes etc by John Parkinson of Wandsworth., c.1747 MS.6148; Account book of Thomas Baker, Surgeon from 1739, naming apprentices, dressers and students, 1732-70 MS.5781; John Coakley Lettsom: fragment of autobiography including life as medical student at St Thomas's, 1766-7 MS.3245; Papers on ownership of anatomical collection, 1825-9 MS.7804; Theodore Dyke Acland , catalogue of specimens in Physiological Laboratory, c.1880, Case notes including cases at St Thomas's, 1893-1914 MSS.839, 845 ; material in Thomas Hodgkin papers PP/HO; Papers of William Walters Sargant include memoranda and correspondence re administration of the Department of Pyschological Medicine, 1948, history of the department, 1948-65, and records of Sargant's research there 1948-72 PP/WWS

Samaritan Hospital: material in papers of W Sampson Handley GC/152

Scottish Hospital, Crane Court, Fleet Street: papers relating to administrative and financial affairs, 1799-1843 MS.6825

South London Hospital: material on founder, Maud Chadburn, plus correspondence about and photos of the hospital, and Chadburn's manuscript account of its history, 1900s-70s SA/MWF

University College Hospital: Case notes and records of research of Sir George Pickering, Department of Clinical Research 1930s PP/GWP; Set of photographs, c.1920 GC/213; R D Harkness's notebooks of ward rounds, etc, as medical student, 1940s GC/82; research projects sponsored by National Birthday Trust Fund, 1960s SA/NBT

Unnamed London Hospital: Physician’s Register 1901 GC/115

Western Fever Hospital, Fulham: Lyon Falkener's miscellaneous case notes, notes on cases of scarlet fever, typhus and the treatment of fevers, statistics, 1893-1901 MSS.6802, 6806

Westminster Hospital: Tape and transcript of 1993 interview with former colleagues of Sir Stanford Cade about radiotherapy at the hospital and changes in the NHS GC/171

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