Catalogue description Staines Group Hospital Management Committee and Ashford Hospital

This record is held by The London Archives: City of London

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Title: Staines Group Hospital Management Committee and Ashford Hospital
Description: Contents: Registers of Births; Registers of Deaths; Religious Creed Registers; Admission and Discharge Books; Register of Defectives; Register of Lunatics; Wages Receipt Books.
Held by: The London Archives: City of London, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Staines Union Workhouse, c 1840-?

Staines Institution, 1930-?

Staines Emergency Hospital, c 1939-?

Staines County Hospital, ?-1945

Ashford County Hospital, 1945-1948

Ashford Hospital, 1948-
Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred under the terms of the Public Records Act 1958, S4(1), to the former Middlesex County Record Office, now the Greater London Record Office, 18 September 1964. (Official Accession 1964/37)

Subjects:
  • Staines, Middlesex
  • Health services
  • Mental health
  • Wages
Administrative / biographical background:

The Workhouse at Stanwell, later known as Staines Union Workhouse and Staines Institution, was built, probably in the 1840's, by the Board of Guardians of the Staines Poor Law Union and administered by the Board until it was transferred to the Middlesex County Council on 1st April 1930 as a Public Assistance Institution. In 1939/40 an emergency hutted hospital was built in the grounds and it became known as Staines Emergency, and later as Staines County Hospital. It continued to be technically administered under poor law powers until the end of World War II in 1945 when it was appropriated to public health purposes and the name again changed to Ashford County Hospital. It was transferred to the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board in 1948, since when it has been known as Ashford Hospital.
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