Identity area
Reference code
THB 4
Title
Dundee Women's Hospital and Nursing Home
Date(s)
- 1897-1948 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
0.20 linear metres
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
The Dundee Women's Hospital and Nursing Home developed from a dispensary for women and children set up in the 1890s for the treatment of women by female doctors. In May 1897 a small hospital, the Dundee Hospital for Women, was set up in Seafield Road to provide surgical care at a low cost. In 1914 the hospital was about to move to a new purpose-built building in Elliott Road, but this building was seriously damaged by a fire just before its planned opening. The hospital used temporary accommodation in Windsor Street until the repaired Elliot Road building opened on 24 February 1915 . When the National Health Service Act came into effect in 1948 the Women's Hospital and Nursing Home unsuccessfully petitioned the Secretary of State for permission to keep operating the hospital as a private charitable concern and not as part of the National Health Service. The hospital closed circa 1975.
Repository
Archival history
Unknown
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Reports 1897-1945; minutes of subscribers and committees 1937-1971; balance sheet of endowment fund 1925.
Accruals
Not expected
System of arrangement
Usually chronological within series.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open for consultation subject to preservation requirements. Access must also conform to the restrictions of the Data Protection Act (2018), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, 2018) and any other relevant legislation or restrictions. Clinical information is closed for 100 years.
Conditions governing reproduction
Reproduction is available subject to preservation requirements. Charges may be made for this service, and copyright and other restrictions may apply; please check with the Duty Archivist.
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
The records are on paper.
Finding aids
Descriptive list. Subject source lists and databases are also available.
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Description control area
Description identifier
THB 4
Rules and/or conventions used
Description compiled in line with the following standards: International Council on Archives, ISAD(G) General International Standard Archival Description; International Council on Archives, ISAAR(CPF): International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families; National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997
Status
Catalogued
Dates of creation revision deletion
Language(s)
- English