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Identity statement
- Reference code(s)
- GB 0100 KCLCA SFH/FP & SFH/F
- Title
- ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL NURSING SCHOOL: Record of Service
- Date(s)
- 1949-[1965]
- Level of description
- Collection (fonds)
- Extent and medium of the unit of description (quantity, bulk, or size)
- 1 volume, 1 file
Context
- Name of creator(s)
St Francis Hospital Nursing School
- Administrative / Biographical history
In 1948, when the National Health Service Act came into operation, the St Francis Hospital came under the administrative control of Camberwell Hospital Management Committee, which included St Giles and Dulwich Hospitals. In 1966 St Francis Hospital joined the King's College Teaching Hospital Group. This resulted in St Francis 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.
- Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Deposited by King's College Hospital Nurses League in 1985.
Content & structure
- Scope and content
St Francis Hospital Record of Service Book, 1949-1956, (SFH/FP), including details of name of nurse, position, date of birth, date of entering service, date and cause of leaving, previous appointments, comments on work and conduct; photographs of St Francis Hospital, [1960-1965], (SFH/F).
- System of arrangement
Arranged chronologically by date of entry.
Conditions of access & use
- Conditions governing access
Student and staff records are closed for 80 years from the last date on file.
- Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.
- Language/scripts of material
English.
- Finding aids
Handlist available in the reading room of the College Archives.
Allied materials
- Existence and location of originals
King's College London College Archives
- Related units of description
King's College London also holds King's College Hospital Nightingale Institute records, 1813-1999, (Ref: GB 0100 KCLCA K/NI, K/NI/FP & K/NI/PR); registers of nurses and student nurses for Dulwich Hospital, 1917-1967, (Ref: GB 0100 KCLCA DH/FP), St Giles Hospital, 1931, 1952-1954, (Ref: GB 0100 KCLCA SGH/F & SGH/FP), St Saviour's Hospital, [1890]-1931, (Ref: GB 0100 KCLCA SSH/FP), Lewisham Hospital, [1960-1990], (Ref: GB 0100 KCLCA LH/FP), and St Thomas's Hospital, [1950-1980], (Ref: GB 0100 KCLCA TH/SN/FP). General administrative records, 1930-1948, finance records, 1896-1930, and admission and discharge records, 1894-1931, of St Francis Hospital, are held at London Metropolitan Archives.
Description control
- Archivist's Note
Sources: online Public Record Office and Wellcome Trust's Hospital Records Database at http://hospitalrecords.pro.gov.uk. Compiled by Annabel Dodds.
- Rules or conventions
National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second edition, 2000.
This catalogue is made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License. This catalogue may be updated from time to time in order to reflect additional material and/or new understandings of the material.
- Date(s) of descriptions
Jun 2000.
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