Catalogue description NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE: BRIGHTON DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITY

This record is held by East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)

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Title: NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE: BRIGHTON DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITY
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HB/1 Brighton and Lewes Hospital Management Committee: minutes of the Management Committee and the Finance, Nursing, Buildings, Drafting, Catering and Domiciliary sub-committees; 1948-1974

 

HB/2 Brighton and Lewes Hospital Management Committee: summons and attendance book; 1948-1974

 

HB/3 Lewes Dispensary, Infirmary and Victoria Hospital: Board of Directors' minutes; 1847-1948

 

HB/4 Lewes Victoria Hospital: House Committee minutes; 1923-1948

 

HB/5 Lewes Dispensary, Infirmary and Victoria Hospital: ledgers; 1890-1916

 

HB/6 Lewes Dispensary, Infirmary and Victoria Hospital: papers relating to the Charity Commission scheme for the dispensary, including printed regulations, abstract of building fund account, report of a meeting of the inhabitants to consider the celebration of Victoria's jubilee, contract for the erection of a new hospital and a sub-committee report on the extension of the hospital; 1847-1935

 

HB/7 Lewes Victoria Hospital; medical staff meeting minutes; 1954-1956

 

HB/8 Newhaven Downs Hospital: Newhaven Poor Law Union general ledgers and casual paupers' admission and discharge registers; 1839-1930

 

HB/9 Newhaven Downs Hospital: records of inmates of the Newhaven Public Assistance Institution, including register of mechanical restraint, reports of the Visiting committee, admission and discharge registers and register of vaccinations; 1892-1948

 

HB/10 Newhaven Downs Hospital: administrative records of Newhaven Assistance Institution; 1931-1948

 

HB/11 Sussex Maternity and Women's Hospital: Governors' minutes, minutes of the Finance, House and Drug Committees, registers of patients, midwifery registers, operation registers, out-patient case notes and annual reports; 1870-1948

 

HB/12 New Sussex Hospital for Women and Children: Board of Management minutes, minutes of the House, Finance, Appeal, Special and John Howard Committees, notes on surgical cases treated by Miss Ottley; 1917-1948

 

HB/13 New Sussex Hospital for Women and Children: notes on surgical cases treated by Miss Ottley; 1949

 

HB/14 Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children: annual reports, minutes of the Management, Medical, Ladies', House and Maintenance committees, printed statutes governing the objects of the Hospital; 1868-1937

 

HB/15 Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children: social registers; 1946-1951

 

HB/16 Brighton, Hove and Sussex Joint Hospitals Board: minutes of the Board; 1904-1913

 

HB/17 Brighton Association for Mutual Registration of Assistance: minutes of the Executive Committee; 1913-1920

 

HB/18 Brighton Christian Social Council: minutes of the Executive Committee; 1921-1935

 

HB/19 Voluntary Hospitals Consultative Council (Brighton and East Sussex): minutes; 1928-1930

 

HB/20 Pouchlands Hospital: Master of Chailey Public Assistance Institution, cash books, summary day book, stores account, inventory of contents and dietary; 1932-1937

 

HB/21 Pouchlands Hospital: admission and discharge registers; 1944-1950

 

HB/22 Pouchlands Hospital: House Committee minutes; 1948-1962

 

HB/23 Pouchlands Hospital: staff social club minutes; 1962-1974

 

HB/24 Mid-Sussex Hospital Management Committee: minutes of the Management Committee; 1953-1967

 

HB/25 Mid-Sussex Hospital Management Committee: Finance and Establishment sub-committee minutes; 1960-1967

 

HB/26 Mid-Sussex Hospital Management Committee: Building and Maintenance sub-committee minutes; 1960-1974

 

HB/27 Mid-Sussex Hospital Management Committee: Catering and Supplies sub-committee minutes; 1960-1967

 

HB/28 Royal Sussex County Hospital: minutes and annual reports of the Court of Governors; 1828-1939

 

HB/29 Royal Sussex County Hospital: minutes of the Board of Management; 1824-1948

 

HB/30 Royal Sussex County Hospital: minutes of the Building, Ormerod Fund, Honorary Medical and Surgical Staff, Elective, Stephen Ralli Memorial Fund, House, Almoner's, Nursing, Wounded Soldiers, Income Augmentation, Venereal Diseases, X-ray, Drug, Finance, John Howard Trust, Chapel, Emergency Executive, Executive, Catering and special and ad hoc Committees, agenda book; 1842-1948

 

HB/31 Royal Sussex County Hospital: Official Visitors' report books; 1845-1923

 

HB/32 Royal Sussex County Hospital: statutes, rules and regulations; 1852-1941

 

HB/33 Royal Sussex County Hospital: records of endowments; 1825-1910

 

HB/34 Royal Sussex County Hospital: newspaper cutting books; 1813-1947

 

HB/35 Royal Sussex County Hospital: admission and discharge records; 1828-1904

 

HB/36 Royal Sussex County Hospital: registers of in-patients; 1909-1944

 

HB/37 Royal Sussex County Hospital: reports and certificates of probationer nurses, Records of nursing and domestic staff, 1883-1948

 

HB/38 Royal Sussex County Hospital: Secretary-Superintendent's correspondence files consisting of general files and those arranged by subject including Brighton CB Electricity Works and Insurance Committee, war pensions, venereal diseases, committees, appointment of staff, Howard Trust, fire precautions, lawn tennis club, Sunday Fund, Ralli Memorial, Ormerod Exhibition Fund, complaints from patients, accident reports, Sussex Area Committee of the British Hospitals Association; 1906-1945

 

HB/39 Royal Sussex County Hospital: architectural plans and drawings; 1853-1934

 

HB/40 Royal Sussex County Hospital: legal records consisting of trust deed for the use of a convalescent home at Ditchling, agreements with Brighton CB, East and West Sussex CCs for the treatment of venereal disease, lease of 182 and 184 Eastern Road in Brighton, agreement with the Sunshine Home of Recovery and Auxiliary Hospital at Hurstpierpoint, trust deed for the John Howard Bequest, water supply agreements with Brighton CB, fire insurance policies, correspondence and statements concerning alleged negligence in the case of Miss B Howard; 1897-1941

 

HB/41 Royal Sussex County Hospital: printed material, photographs and drawings; 1842-1960

 

HB/42 Royal Sussex County Hospital: operation registers; 1894-1906

 

HB/43 Royal Sussex County Hospital: engineer's weekly report books; 1909-1920

 

HB/44 Royal Sussex County Hospital: visitors' books; 1874-1946

 

HB/45 Royal Sussex County Hospital: House Surgeons' letter books; 1872-1877

 

HB/46 Royal Sussex County Hospital: Secretary's letter books, consisting of general letters and those relating to the Stephen Ralli memorial fund and laboratory; 1904-1915

 

HB/47 Royal Sussex County Hospital: Appointments Committee minutes; 1933-1951

 

HB/48 Royal Sussex County Hospital: Visiting Medical Staff Committee minutes; 1947-1956

 

HB/49 Royal Sussex County Hospital: Matron's reports to the Nursing Committee; 1946-1969

 

HB/50 Royal Sussex County Hospital: Visitors' reports to the House Committee; 1923-1950

 

HB/51 Royal Sussex County Hospital: newspaper cutting books; 1947-1962

 

HB/52 Royal Sussex County Hospital: registers of domestic staff; 1924-1958

 

HB/53 Royal Sussex County Hospital: nurses' contract books; 1946-1958

 

HB/54 Royal Sussex County Hospital: nurses' training certificates; 1948-1960

 

HB/55 Sussex Throat and Ear Hospital: Committee of Management minutes, Governors' Annual General Meeting minutes, Lady Visitors' report books; 1882-1948

 

HB/56 Sussex Throat and Ear Hospital: register of donors; 1926-1951

 

HB/57 Sussex Eye Hospital: minutes of the Board of Management, House Committee, Finance Committee, Appeal Committee, Building Committee minutes, minutes and correspondence of the honorary medical staff, register of legacies, photograph of the hospital, register of admissions; 1927-1946

 

HB/58 Brighton Hove and Preston Dispensary: northern branch visitors' reports to the House Committee; 1888-1944

 

HB/59 Brighton Hove and Preston Dispensary: plans and drawings of the Brighton Dispensary; 19th century

 

HB/60 Thomas Lye Convalescent Home: register of patients; 1938-1950

 

HB/61 Royal Sussex County Hospital: papers of Charles Druce, solicitor, as executor of George Bridges concerning a donation to the hospital for the Adelaide wing; 1839-1841

 

HB/62 Royal Sussex County Hospital: case histories, consisting of general cases and those treated by Dr EL Ormerod, G Lowdell, Dr H Moon, Dr W Kebbell, Dr WW Moore, Dr J Rutter, Dr WA Hollis; 1843-1884

 

HB/63 Lady Chichester Hospital: annual reports, minutes of the Board of Management, Finance Committee, Appeal Committee, Finance committee, cash book, register of monthly salaries; 1900-1948

 

HB/64 Royal Sussex County Hospital: inventories of the memorial tablets in the chapel, the contents of the hospital and of the theatre block and casualty department, list of appliances on hire from the Brighton, Hove and Worthing Gas Company, return to East Sussex CC of the dates of additions to the hospital and numbers of patients treated; 1926-1939

 

HB/65 Pouchlands Hospital: records of inmates of Chailey Public Assistance Institution, consisting of maternity register, case notes on mentally handicapped patients, registers of admissions under the Mental Deficiency Acts, registers of removals, discharges and deaths of mentally defective patients, medical journals giving details of treatment of mentally defective patients, medical journals for patients under guardianship; 1921-1948

 

HB/66 Pouchlands Hospital: registers of deaths; 1944-1953

 

HB/67 Pouchlands Hospital: Private Daniel Brien of Marylebone, rifleman certificate of discharge from the 92nd Regiment of Foot and his certificate of award of a life pension by the Royal Hospital Chelsea; 1876-1879

 

HB/68 Brighton General Hospital: Medical Officer's report on the Elm Grove Home to the Brighton CB House sub-committee, Medical Superintendent's and Steward's reports on the Municipal Hospital to the Brighton CB Municipal Hospital sub-committee; 1935-1948

 

HB/69 Brighton General Hospital: inventory of public assistance institution and infirmary; 1934-1941

 

HB/70 Brighton General Hospital: records of baptisms, churchings and services held by the Chaplain to the Municipal Hospital at the Municipal Hospital, Sanatorium and the Elm Grove Home, minutes of the Staff Social Club; 1946-1947

 

HB/71 Brighton General Hospital: records of patients in the workhouse and Municipal Hospital, consisting of registers of persons of unsound mind, H Block ward registers, registers of patients receiving free treatment (including fighting services, war workers, evacuees), register of deaths, register of clinical analysis of in-patients, admission and discharge registers; 1889-1948

 

HB/72 Brighton General Hospital: Group One (formerly A) House Committee minutes and Visiting Committee reports (with responsibility for Brighton General Hospital and Bevendean Hospital); 1948-1974

 

HB/73 Brighton General Hospital: minutes of Medical Staff Committee of the General Hospital and Bevendean Hospital; 1950-1968

 

HB/74 Brighton General Hospital: Nurses' Club account book; 1935-1968

 

HB/75 Brighton General Hospital: registers of deaths; 1944-1979

 

HB/76 Brighton General Hospital: registers of maternity cases; 1963-1969

 

HB/77 Brighton General Hospital: register of persons of unsound mind, H Block ward register; 1937-1951

 

HB/78 Brighton General Hospital: Borough Sanatorium visitors' book; 1924-1948

 

HB/79 Brighton General Hospital: annual reports of obstetric and gynaecological departments; 1962-1964

 

HB/80 Lady Chichester Hospital: admission and discharge registers; 1905-1934

 

HB/81 Lady Chichester Hospital: House Committee, White House Day Hospital House Committee minutes, Official Visitors' books, Matron's reports, Registrar's statistical reports on bed occupancy; 1948-1973

 

HB/82 Lady Chichester Hospital: Medical Staff Committee minutes; 1957-1971

 

HB/83 Lady Chichester Hospital: admission and discharge registers; 1939-1965

 

HB/84 Lady Chichester Hospital: statistics and returns, consisting of daily figures for admitted patients, monthly returns to the regional hospital board, mental health statistics; 1932-1972

 

HB/85 Lady Chichester Hospital: inventory of contents; 1950's

 

HB/86 Lady Chichester Hospital: psychiatrists' in-patient notebooks; 1964-1974

 

HB/87 Lady Chichester Hospital: doctors' in-patient notebooks; 1973-1977

 

HB/88 Lady Chichester Hospital: senior Occupational Therapist's files, consisting of minutes of the Hospital Multi-disciplinary Management Team, development of the Day Unit, therapeutic team approach to patient care; 1976-1979

 

HB/89 Newhaven Downs Hospital: Visiting Committee reports to the House Committee; 1935-1964

 

HB/90 Newhaven Downs Hospital: record of applications for free treatment, medical examination books; 1918-1959

 

HB/91 Newhaven Downs Hospital: admission and discharge registers, weekly returns of admissions and discharges, in-door relief lists; 1942-1963

 

HB/92 Newhaven Downs Hospital: registers of deaths; 1944-1953

 

HB/93 Newhaven Downs Hospital: Newhaven Downs and Newhaven Valley Hospitals (formerly Newhaven Infectious diseases Hospital) Administrative Officer's correspondence files, consisting of returns to the Brighton and Lewes Hospital Management committee, South-East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, returns of nursing and manual staff, files relating to smallpox, celebration of coronation of Elizabeth II; 1948-1967

 

HB/94 Royal Sussex County Hospital: indexes to in-patients' registers; 1946-1949

 

HB/95 District Works Department: plans of the Royal Sussex County Hospital; 1898-1927

 

HB/96 District Works Department: plans of the Sussex Eye Hospital; 1933

 

HB/97 District Works Department: plans of the Hangleton Welfare Clinic; 1951

 

HB/98 District Works Department: plans of Bevendean Hospital; 1883

 

HB/99 District Works Department: plans of the Sussex Maternity Hospital; 1951

 

HB/100 District Works Department: plans of the New Sussex Hospital for Women and Children; 1930-32

 

HB/101 District Works Department: plans of the Sussex Throat and Ear Hospital; 1929

 

HB/102 District Works Department: plans of the Newhaven Valley Hospital; 1904

 

HB/103 District Works Department: plans of the Brighton General Hospital; 1864-1952

 

HB/104 District Works Department: plans of Newhaven Downs Hospital; 1897-1939

 

HB/105 District Works Department: plans of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children; 1880-1972

 

HB/106 Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children: administrative records, consisting of plan of proposed alterations at 178 Western Road, extracts from wills containing donations to the hospital, copies of legacy accounts, auditor's reports, medical report book containing admission and discharge statistics, monthly reports of senior salaried staff; 1903-1948

 

HB/107 Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children: operations register, notes of orthopaedic cases treated by Bernard Roth, in-patients' case notes; 1887-1935

 

HB/108 Brighton, Hove and Preston Dispensary and Hove General Hospital: minutes of the Board of Management; 1834-1947

 

HB/109 Brighton, Hove and Preston Dispensary and Hove General Hospital: Finance and Audit Committee, Western Branch House Committee, Northern Branch and Parent Establishment House Committee, Drug Committee minutes, sub-committee minutes and reports, Western Branch Visitors' reports to the House Committee, minutes of the Appeal Committee and Appeal Board; 1851-1937

 

HB/110 Brighton, Hove and Preston Dispensary and Hove General Hospital: annual reports of the Committee of Management and Board of Management; 1820-1853

 

HB/111 Brighton, Hove and Preston Dispensary and Hove General Hospital: financial and property records and details of bequests; 1852-1971

 

HB/112 Hove General Hospital: minutes of the Group 4 House Committee (Hove General Hospital, Foredown Hospital), Matron's reports to the Committee; 1942-1974

 

HB/113 Hove General Hospital: Medical Staff Committee minutes; 1946-1975

 

HB/114 Hove General Hospital: newspaper cuttings; 1928-1975

 

HB/115 Hove General Hospital: registers of nursing staff, sisters' register, register of pupil nurse training; 1939-1977

 

HB/116 Hove General Hospital: sisters', staff nurses' and enrolled nurses procedure meetings, minutes of the Brighton and Lewes Group clinical instructors' meetings, representatives of group hospitals and the School of Nursing; 1966-1972

 

HB/117 Brighton General Hospital: registers of baptisms; 1885-1980

 

HB/118 Hove General Hospital: visitors' book; 1890-1896

 

HB/119 Hove General Hospital: handbooks, directories and yearbooks received from other organisations, 1950s - c1977

 

HB/120 Hove General Hospital: rules and regulations; 1937

 

HB/121 Chailey Heritage: minutes of the Executive Council, Emergency, Finance and Development Committee, House Committee, Education Committee, Finance Committee, Nursing Committee, Planning Committee, Joint House and Medical Advisory Committee minutes, special committee and ad-hoc sub-committee minutes; 1907-1948

 

HB/122 Chailey Heritage: Medical council, Medical Staff committee minutes; 1924-1949

 

HB/123 Chailey Heritage: Guild of Play, St Nicholas Home for Raid-Shock Children, Princess Louise Military Wards, Heritage Craft Schools ledgers; 1912-1947

 

HB/124 Chailey Heritage: Girls' Heritage subscription list, register of teachers' salaries, maintenance account sheets, appeal income account; 1904-1947

 

HB/125 Chailey Heritage: Boys' Craft School, Girls' Craft School, Heritage Preparatory School, United Services Fund admission registers, medical register of girls, register of girls at Housewifery School, register of admissions at Housewifery School, register of East Sussex County Council cases, file of in-patient discharges; 1903-1945

 

HB/126 Chailey Heritage: Emergency Medical Service admission registers; 1940-1942

 

HB/127 Chailey Heritage: correspondence and papers, consisting of papers relating to the leasing and subsequent purchase of the former Chailey Union Workhouse, buildings insurance policies, letters concerning donations, building accounts, Sir Jessie Boot's endowment, correspondence relating to trustees and patrons, statistics, Tidemills Hospital at Bishopstone, Beech House; 1903-1946

 

HB/128 Chailey Heritage: Administrator's files, consisting of returns, teaching staff references and papers, Bishopstone evacuation, agricultural returns, Boy's School, Girls' School, constitution, circulars, policy and planning, reports to Mrs Kimmins. transfer to Ministry of Health, buildings, transfer of Sedgebrook Hospital to the NHS: 1947-1949

 

HB/129 Chailey Heritage: financial statements; 1909-1948

 

HB/130 Chailey Heritage: published material and press cuttings; 1905-1948

 

HB/131 Chailey Heritage: photographs of the hospital, staff and children, Tidemills Hospital at Bishopstone; 1903-1948

 

HB/132 Chailey Heritage: plans and drawings of the hospital and the Tidemills Hospital at Bishopstone; 1920-1932

 

HB/133 Chailey Heritage: St Martin's Chapel service registers; 1913-1937

 

HB/134 Chailey Heritage: Grace Kimmin's correspondence files, consisting of unsuccessful petitions for a royal charter, annual animal service, purchase of land, former pupils, buildings, donations, visits, St Martin's Chapel; 1946-1954

 

HB/135 Chailey Heritage: House Committee agenda book; 1947-1952

 

HB/136 Chailey Heritage: House Committee indexes to minutes; 1950-1958

 

HB/137 Chailey Heritage: School Governing Body agenda book, agendas of the Heritage Governing Body; 1935-1953

 

HB/138 Chailey Heritage: Hospital Secretary's files including estimates, reports, National Federation of Hospital Officers, returns of nursing, midwifery and domestic staff, X-ray equipment, visits by parents, memorial service for Dame Grace Kimmins, visit by HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, opening of the Lady Hoare Experimental Workshop and Training Unit, multi-national conference of the International Society of Prosthetics and Orthotics; 1947-1974

 

HB/139 Chailey Heritage: photographs; 1948-1974

 

HB/140 Chailey Heritage: published material; 1948-1974

 

HB/141 Chailey Heritage: staff registers; 1954-1959

 

HB/142 Chailey Heritage: registers of operations; 1925-1955

 

HB/143 Chailey Heritage: Medical Administrator's correspondence files including aftercare and follow-up, Almoner, housing, County Medical Officer of Health, Assistant Nurses' Training School, Orthopaedic Clinics, psychiatric service, staff, speech therapy, buildings, cerebral palsy, admissions and discharges, sex education, parents' day, League of Friends; 1950-1961

 

HB/144 Chailey Heritage: Medical Administrator's file copies of the minutes of the Mid-Sussex Hospital Management Committee's Group Medical sub-committee, Heritage Medical Staff Committee, reports to the House Committee, Governing Body of School, Coronation sub-committee, Records sub-committee, accommodation sub-committee, general staff meetings; 1950-1957

 

HB/145 Chailey Heritage: card index of nursing staff and orderlies; 20th century

 

HB/146 Chailey Heritage: Guild of Play, Guild of Poor Brave Things booklets, photographs and press cuttings; c1890-1924

 

HB/147 Chailey Heritage: House Committee minutes, minutes of the Clothing, Chapel, Finance, Clinics, Gardens and Planning Committees and sub-committees; 1948-1975

 

HB/148 Chailey Heritage: Chailey Drama Society minutes and correspondence; 1954-1956

 

HB/149 Morley Street Chest Clinic: registers of notified tuberculosis cases; 1905-1989

 

HB/150 Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children: registers of operations; 1953-1971

 

HB/151 Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children: ward admission and discharge registers, 1945-1972

 

HB/152 Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children: Matron's records relating to nursing staff, consisting of nurses registers, registers of trainee nurses, trained staff interview book, register of entrants at the preliminary training school, reports on trainee nurses from other hospitals; 1887-1973

 

HB/153 Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children: Matron's reports; 1935-1969

 

HB/154 Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children: Matron's in-letters; 1941-1950

 

HB/155 Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children: visitor's book; 1920-1950

 

HB/156 Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children: programme for the summer meeting of the Association of British Paediatric Nurses at the hospital on its centenary; 1968

 

HB/157 Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children: register of donors; 1936-1948

 

HB/158 Chailey Heritage: Professional Advisory Committee minutes; 1975-1980

 

HB/159 Chailey Heritage: visitors' books for the hospital, Girls' Heritage, Tidemills Hospital in Bishopstone; 1915-1939

 

HB/160 Chailey Heritage: statements of account of the endowments and amenities fund; 1952-1975

 

HB/161 Chailey Heritage: Hospital Secretary's files; 1974-

 

HB/162 Brighton Dispensary and Hove General Hospital: photographs; 1911-1947

 

HB/163 Brighton Dispensary: papers relating to the establishment of the dispensary, and its history; 1809-1909

 

HB/164 Sussex General Infirmary (later Sussex County Hospital): papers relating to the establishment of the hospital; 1811-1825

 

HB/165 Brighton, Hove and Preston Dispensary: instructions of staff; 1886-1910

 

HB/166 Brighton, Hove and Preston Dispensary: nursing certificate counterfoils; 1897-1928

 

HB/167 Hove General Hospital: hospital plans and note concerning room usage; 1952-1993

 

HB/168 Chailey Heritage: x-ray registers; 1934-1963

 

HB/169 Chailey Heritage: plaster registers: 1925-1984

 

HB/170 Chailey Heritage: Old Scholars' Association newsletters; 1995-1999

 

HB/171 Sussex Eye Hospital: minutes of the visiting medical staff committee; Dec 1958 - Oct 1965

 

HB/172 Newhaven Downs Hospital: published histories; 1997

 

HB/173 Brighton Health District: Brighton Health Bulletins, Mar 1967 - Dec 1988

 

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HB/175

 

HB/176

 

HB/177

 

HB/178

 

HB/179

 

HB/180 Brighton Health District: publicity material, 1970s - 1990s

Date: 1809-1999
Held by: East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Brighton District Health Authority, 1974-

BRIGHTON DISTRICT HEALTH AUTHORITY

Physical description: 610 volumes; 34 boxes; 179 sets of plans
Access conditions:

Patients' records are not available for consultation until 100 years from the last date of the document. Those series are affected are indicated in their catalogue entries. Other series are not available for consultation until 30 years from the last date of the document

Publication note:

For brief histories of several hospitals, see L.W. Lauste. 'The development of the hospitals in Brighton and Hove', Proc. Royal Society of Medicine, 65(1972), 17-22

Subjects:
  • Brighton
  • Hove
  • Health services
Administrative / biographical background:

The Brighton District Health Authority was established in 1974. Its territory was co-terminous with Brighton Borough, Hove Borough and (except for Seaford) Lewes District. This catalogue is primarily organised by the hospitals within the district, as they existed and were named at the creation of the National Health Service in 1948

 

These hospitals were, with dates of establishment, and the main series (if any) in this catalogue relating to them are, as follows:

 

Bevendean Hospital, Brighton, 1898 as Brighton Borough Sanatorium HB/78

 

Brighton General Hospital, 1866 as Brighton Workhouse and Infirmary, 1930-1935, Brighton Public Assistance Institution, and, 1935-1948, Brighton Municipal Hospital and Elm Grove Home HB/68-79, 117

 

Chailey Heritage Hospital, 1903 as the Heritage Craft Schools and Hospitals for Crippled Children HB/121-148, 158-161, 168-170

 

Foredown Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Hangleton, 1883-1988

 

Hove General Hospital, 1859, within the Western Branch of the Brighthelmston Dispensary, which thereupon was renamed as the Brighton and Hove Dispensary, and in 1884 as the Brighton, Hove and Preston Dispensary. Closed 1990s HB/58, 59, 108-116, 118-120, 162, 167

 

Lady Chichester Hospital, Hove, 1905 within in the Lewes Road Dispensary, 1899, from which it separated in 1918 HB/63, 80-88

 

Lewes Victoria Hospital, 1888, within the Lewes Dispensary, 1847 HB/4-7

 

Newhaven Downs Hospital, 1836 as Newhaven Union Workhouse, closed 1996 HB/8-10, 89-93, 172

 

Newhaven Valley Hospital, c. 1904, as the Newhaven Infectious Diseases Hospital

 

New Sussex Hospital for Women and Children, 1912, having originated in the Lewes Road Dispensary for Women and Children, 1899 HB/11-13

 

Pouchlands Hospital, Chailey, 1898 as the Chailey Union Workshop and, 1930-48, the Chailey Public Assistance Institution HB/21-23, 65-68

 

Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children, Brighton, 1868 HB/14, 15, 106, 107, 150-157

 

Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, 1828, as the Sussex County Hospital, in succession to the Sussex General Infirmary, 1812, which the Brighthelmston Dispensary, 1809, had opened HB/28-54, 61, 62, 64, 94

 

Sedgebrook Hospital, Plumpton, 1902, as a smallpox hospital

 

Sussex Eye Hospital, Brighton, 1832 HB/57, 171

 

Sussex Maternity and Women's Hospital, Brighton, 1830. Closed 1970

 

Sussex Throat and Ear Hospital, Brighton, 1879 HB/55, 56

 

Other organisations of which there are series of records in this catalogue are:

 

Brighton and Lewes Hospital Management Committee, 1948-1974 HB/1, 2

 

Brighton Association for Mutual Recognition of Assistance HB/17

 

Brighton Christian Social Council HB/18

 

Brighton District Health Authority, 1974- HB/173, 180

 

Brighton, Hove and Sussex Joint Hospitals Board HB/16

 

Mid-Sussex Hospital Management Committee, 1948-1974 HB/24-27

 

Morley Street Chest Clinic, Brighton HB/149

 

Thomas Lye Convalescent Home HB/60

 

Voluntary Hospitals Consultative Council (Brighton and East Sussex) HB/19

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