Campden Benefit Nursing Association, the Chipping Campden and Ebrington Sick Fund...

D6043

Campden Benefit Nursing Association, the Chipping Campden and Ebrington Sick Fund and the Campden Hospital Fund

1903-1989

Records include minutes, accounts, subscriptions, donations, district nurse and nurse's cottage, correspondence.

<p>[See also GRO D4057/2]</p>

English

• <corpname>Campden Benefit Nursing Association, Gloucestershire, c1923-1956</corpname>
• <corpname>Chipping Campden and Ebrington Sick Fund, 1956-1988</corpname>
• <corpname>Campden Hospital Fund, Gloucestershire</corpname>

45 files

Documents deposited by Mrs. J.T. Atkins, 3 October 1989

Before the National Health Service Act in 1948 the district nursing service was maintained entirely by voluntary effort. The Campden Benefit Nursing Association, covering the parishes of Chipping Campden, Broad Campden and Ebrington, seems to have been established c. 1923, although there was a resident nurse in Chipping Campden as early as 1903. The fund provided for the services of a district nurse, paying the rent of her cottage and the maintenance and running costs of her car, as well as providing additional transport to take people to hospital and paying nursing fees incurred by subscribers and "deserving cases". In 1956 the Association became a charitable trust. Its money was reinvested as the Chipping Campden and Ebrington sick fund to be used to benefit the sick and needy poor of both parishes. In 1988 the charity was dissolved and its assets transferred to the William Keyte Charity of Ebrington, the Poor's Piece charity of Aston-sub-Edge, and the Chipping Campden United Charities.

The Campden Hospital Fund was started in 1921 and seems to have been administered alongside the other local funds. The money it raised from door-to-door collections and church collections was donated to local hospitals and subscribers to the fund received assistance with hospital fees

The depositor was secretary to the Chipping Campden and Ebrington sick fund