Catalogue description EAST SURREY HOSPITAL, FORMERLY REIGATE AND REDHILL HOSPITAL, ANNUAL REPORTS, MINUTES, CASE BOOKS AND PLANS

The majority of the volumes are in poor condition, mould infested and many have pages stuck together. Dates in square brackets are assumed due to the original being illegible or inaccessible.

This is a provisional list pending further inspection of records requiring conservation treatment.

For a history of the hospital published in 1966 see -/8/3 below.

For minutes of Surrey Area Health Authority and predecessor hospital management committees, 1948-1983, see 6197.

East Surrey Hospital, Reigate, 1923-

Reigate and Redhill Hospital, Reigate, 1871-1923

Patient records are closed to public access for 100 years after the last entry. Minutes are closed to public access for 30 years after the last entry.

Deposited under s.4(1) of the Public Records Act of 1958 by the East Surrey Health Authority in October 1993. Accession 6241 was a later deposit from the same source, and accessioned separately for convenience.

Reigate Cottage Hospital was founded in 1866 by Dr John Walters, a leading physician at Reigate, and his partner Dr Constantine Holman. Money was raised by subscription to convert two cottages in North Albert Road to a six bed hospital with a nurse-matron and a woman to help with domestic duties. The medical staff was honorary and for many years consisted solely of Dr Walters. In 1871 a new hospital, renamed the Reigate and Redhill Hospital, was built on the northern edge of Redhill Common to accommodate 12 patients and by 1925 the hospital had been enlarged to accommodate 82 patients. Around 1923 the name was changed to the East Surrey Hospital. The hospital moved to its present site on Three Arch Road in 1983.

On the formation of the National Health Service in 1948 the management of East Surrey Hospital was taken over by the Redhill Group Hospital Management Committee (for minutes, 1948-1964, see 6197/4/-) under the South-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. In 1964 the Redhill Group HMC was replaced by the Redhill and Netherne Group HMC (for minutes, 1964-1973, see 6197/3/-). In 1973 the hospital fell within the East Surrey District of the newly created Surrey Area Health Authority (for minutes, 1973-1982, see 6197/1/-). From 1982, on the abolition of the Surrey Area Health Authority, the hospital's management became the responsibility of the East Surrey Health Authority.

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