RECORDS RELATING TO PRE-NHS HOSPITALS IN HERTFORDSHIRE

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RECORDS RELATING TO PRE-NHS HOSPITALS IN HERTFORDSHIRE

This catalogue covers records of pre-NHS (ie pre-1948) hospitals in Hertfordshire. It is divided into three sections: Isolation Hospitals (HI), Voluntary Hospital (HV) and Workhouse Hospitals (HW).

In some cases the records were previously catalogued with the reference NHS; former references are detailed in each catalogue.

<span class="wrapper"><p>Records relating to the administration of hospitals by the National Health Service after 1948. For details of these see the summary list of uncatalogued accessions.</p> <p>Hill End Asylum, run by the Hertfordshire County Council: for these records see HCC12/1-18 and the summary list of uncatalogued accessions. (off acc. 1025)</p> <p>Three Counties Asylum (Fairfield Hospital), run jointly by the County Council with the County Councils of Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire. The main series of records is in the Bedfordshire Record Office. See also the Guide to the Hertfordshire Record Office and the summary list of uncatalogued accessions.</p> <p>Watford Maternity Home, run jointly by the County Council and the County Nursing Association from 1919 and by the County Council from 1938 to 1948. For records see CNA 11-13 and HSS2/1/1-3.</p> <p>Records of hospitals in Hertfordshire run by the London County Council or Middlesex County Council. Records of Leavesden Hospital (Kings Langley) are LMA Individual records of the following hospitals are not held at LMA, but references to them are found in MCC Public Health Committee and other records: Bushey Maternity Hospital; Danesbury Hospital (Welwyn); Harperbury Hospital (Shenley); Napsbury Hospital (St Albans); Oxhey Grove Hospital; Shenley Hospital.</p></span>

English

• <corpname>Aldbury Isolation Hospital, 1871-1948</corpname>
• <corpname>South Lodge Isolation Hospital, 1940-1945, Baldock</corpname>
• <corpname>Barnet Isolation Hospital, c1902-1948</corpname>
• <corpname>Bishops Stortford Isolation Hospital, c1902-1948</corpname>
• <corpname>Bennets End Isolation Hospital, 1898-1948, Hemel Hempstead</corpname>
• <corpname>East Hertfordshire Joint Hospital, 1902</corpname>
• <corpname>Letchworth and Hitchin Isolation Hospital, 1915-1948</corpname>
• <corpname>Rosehill Hospital, 1948-, Hertfordshire</corpname>
• <corpname>Royston Isolation Hospital, c1906-1937</corpname>
• <corpname>Sisters Hospital, c1911-1948, St Albans</corpname>
• <corpname>Tring Isolation Hospital, 1901-1948</corpname>
• <corpname>Watford and District Isolation Hospital, 1896-1948</corpname>
• <corpname>Bishops Stortford Cottage Hospital, 1895-1897</corpname>
• <corpname>Bishops Stortford Hospital, 1897-1948</corpname>
• <corpname>West Hertfordshire Hospital, 1827-1948</corpname>
• <corpname>Hertford County Hospital, 1822-1948</corpname>
• <corpname>North Hertfordshire and South Bedfordshire Hospital, c1823-1948, Hitchin</corpname>
• <corpname>Letchworth Hospital, 1914-1948, Letchworth Garden City</corpname>
• <corpname>Royston Cottage Hospital, 1869-1924</corpname>
• <corpname>Royston and District Hospital, 1924-1948</corpname>
• <corpname>Home Hospital for Women, 1825-1948, Stevenage</corpname>
• <corpname>Watford Peace Memorial Hospital, 1917-1948</corpname>
• <corpname>Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, 1900-1948, Welwyn</corpname>
• <corpname>Welwyn Garden City Cottage Hospital, 1929-1948</corpname>
• <corpname>St Paul's Hospital, 1826-[?], Hemel Hemsptead</corpname>

There are at present no restrictions on access to any of the records catalogued in H/, none of which contain medical information on patients.

Records which do contain medical information on patients are not permitted to be made available for consultation until they are 100 years old, while all other records are closed to public inspection until they are 30 years old.