NEWBURY DISTRICT HOSPITAL RECORDS

Records of Newbury District Hospital

ADMINISTRATION: provisional, general, site and executive committee minutes, 1884; management committee minutes, 1885-1907, 1917-1947; annual meeting minutes, 1897-1907, 1917-1945; annual reports, 1885-1947 (gaps); house committee minutes, 1885-1905, 1914-1922, 1948-1969; finance committee minutes, 1936-1945, cash book, 1943; balance sheet, 1948; emergency (later hospital) committee minutes, 1939-1945 (gaps); medical staff committee minutes, 1940-1972; various sub-committee minutes, 1884, 1937-1938, 1945; visitors' reports, 1969-1974; Reading and District Hospital management committee and sub committee minutes, 1971-1974; Berkshire Area Health Authority minutes, 1973-1975.

MEDICAL RECORDS: registers of patients, 1909-1951 (gaps); register of military patients, 1916-1917; casualty registers, 1943-1946; day book, 1909-1919; patients' admission forms, 1918-1919; registers of operations, 1947-1955; private wards treatment books, 1951-1952.

MISCELLANEOUS: letters of appreciation, 1961-1969; scrapbook, 1881-1936; presscuttings, 1957-1966, 1977-1978; photographs, c.1914-1983; rules, 1884, 1946; centenary leaflet, 1985; miscellaneous, 1917-1984

Deposited in November 1995 (acc.5697).

Acc.5697: D/H4 1/1; 2/1-2; 3/1-5; 4/1-4; 5/1; 6/1-14; 7/1; 8/1-4; 9/1-2; 10/1-12; 11/1-2; 12/1-3; 13/1-2; 14/1; 15/1; 16/1-6; 17/1/1-10; 17/2/1-2; 18/1-11

Newbury District Hospital was built in 1884 in Andover Road, Newbury, to meet the medical needs of the people of Newbury and Newbury Rural District following the closure of the Nurses Home and Navvy Hospital in Bartholomew Terrace.

The hospital originally housed 12 patients, but various additions were made form 1894 onwards, with a major building programme in 1936-7.

In 1948 the hospital was taken over by the newly formed National Health Service, although it continued to accept private patients.