Catalogue description Records of GLOUCESTERSHIRE ROYAL HOSPITAL

This record is held by Gloucestershire Archives

Details of HO 19
Reference: HO 19
Title: Records of GLOUCESTERSHIRE ROYAL HOSPITAL
Held by: Gloucestershire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
Immediate source of acquisition:

(Acc. 3082, 3148, 3456)

 

Deposited by the Gloucester, Stroud and the Forest Hospital Management Committee in Gloucester Library and transferred to the Record Office in 1974, and further deposits made in September 1975 and December 1976
Subjects:
  • Health services
Administrative / biographical background:

The Gloucestershire Infirmary was constructed in 1755 and enlarged in 1826, 1872, 1885, 1932 and 1936. A nurses' home was opened in 1904 and extended in 1924 and 1932. The title "Royal" was awarded in 1909, and the Infirmary and City General Hospital together styled as "The Royal Gloucestershire Hospital" from 1949, the City General Hospital having become part of the Infirmary under the Public Health Act, 1936.
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