Catalogue description PRINCESS BEATRICE HOSPITAL

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

Details of H04/PB
Reference: H04/PB
Title: PRINCESS BEATRICE HOSPITAL
Related material:

When the records were transferred no administrative records earlier than those listed could be traced. However, it would appear that there should be an earlier volume of the Board of Management Minutes since the volume is labelled "2", and the first entry refers to the minutes of a previous meeting. This would also seem to be true of the House Committee Minutes where the first volume is likewise labelled "2". In the House Committee Minutes there is also a gap between 1940 and 1948. Whether any volumes are missing is difficult to tell since the numbering appears to restart under a different system. Minutes of some meetings of the House Committee can be found the Board of Management Minutes during this period.

 

Copies of the Annual Report for 1936, 1937 and 1943 can be found in the Greater London History Library, County Hall.

 

Records other than volumes were transferred in three parcels. Whether or not these have any original significance is not clear, but the numbers of the parcels from which individual documents were extracted has been noted in the list.

Held by: London Metropolitan Archives: City of London, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Fulham and Kensington General Hospital, ?1909-1921

Kensington, Fulham and Chelsea General Hospital, 1921-1931

Princess Beatrice Hospital, 1931-1978

Immediate source of acquisition:

List of records of the Princess Beatrice Hospital, Old Brompton Road, (formerly the Kensington Fulham and Chelsea General Hospital incorporating the Jubilee Hospital) transferred to the Greater London Record Office in March 1978. (Ac.78.3IX)

Subjects:
  • Kensington, London
  • Kensington, Middlesex
  • Health services
Administrative / biographical background:

The hospital later known as The Princess Beatrice Hospital was founded in 1887 as a voluntary hospital called the Jubilee Hospital to commemorate the jubilee of Queen Victoria. It was situated at the corner of Finborough Road and Old Brompton Road, then known as Richmond Road. There were 14 beds, this being increased later to 18 by the addition of a childrens' ward of 4 beds.

 

The name "Jubilee" was at some time before 1910 changed to Fulham and Kensington General Hospital, and in 1921 to The Kensington, Fulham and Chelsea General Hospital. In 1928 the number of beds was increased to 19.

 

Work commenced on a new and bigger hospital in January 1930, and the foundation stone was laid by Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice. The name of the hospital was changed in 1931 to the Princess Beatrice Hospital. The new out-patient hall opened in December 1931, and the in-patient department in January 1932. In 1933 the Ladies Association was formed, with Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, as President, and the Marchionesses of Carisbrooke and Linlithgow as Vice Presidents.

 

When the Health Service was inaugurated in 1948 the hospital was for two years attached to St George's Hospital, and on 1 August 1950 was transferred to the No.4 (Chelsea) Group Hospital Management Committee.

 

The hospital was closed in July 1971 in order to convert it to an Obstetric Unit. It had been decided in the late 1960's that owing to the development of St Stephen's Hospital, the acute services at the Princess Beatrice Hospital would be transferred to St Stephen's Hospital as soon as the re-development of that hospital enabled this to happen. The hospital re-opened in 1972.

 

With the re-organisation of the Health Service in 1974 it became part of the Kensington Chelsea and Westminster Area Health Authority, South District. The hospital was finally closed at the end of March 1978. With the re-organisation of the Health Service in 1974 it became part of the Kensington Chelsea and Westminster Area Health Authority, South District. The hospital was finally closed at the end of March 1978.

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