Organization Type: Archive Address: Edinburgh University Library George Square City: Edinburgh, Scotland Zip / Postal Code: EH8 9LJ Country: United Kingdom Telephone Number: (0) 131 650 3392 Fax Number: +44 (0) 131 650 2922 Abstract: The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh was founded in 1729. It established a professional archive service in 1968. In 1974, the remit of the archivist was widened to cover the entire Lothian Health Board Catchment Area. Since 1994 Edinburgh University Library has directly managed the Archive on behalf of the local National Health Service (NHS) founders of the Service. Generally open to the public, but appointments for new users are essential. Enquiries via email and web form are welcomed. Opening hours are Monday-Wednesday from 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.; Thursday - Friday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.; vacation 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday. Special permission is required to access personal health records, less than 100 years old. SERVICES: photocopying, photography, microfilming, and digital reprographics. Holdings: Administrative and clinical records of Institutions including: Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Chalmers Hospital, Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children, Leith Hospital, City Hospital, Royal Maternity Hospital/Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion, Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School, South Eastern Regional Hospital Board, Lothian Health Board. Other major collections: personal papers of Alexander Murray Drennan (1884-1984), pathologist; Sir Derrick Melville Dunlop (1902-1980), Christison Professor of Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine; Ernst Julius Levin (1887-1975), neurologist; Elsie Stephenson (1916-1967), Director of Nursing Studies Unit. Institutional papers of Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, Royal Infirmary Samaritan Society, Edinburgh and Southeast Scotland Blood Transfusion Service. Also, clinical case note collection covering early 1900s to the present (over 1,000 shelf meters); photographic collection (c. 40,000 images); printed book collection relating to midwifery and mental health in Scotland; some artifacts. Contact Name, Title: Mike Barfoot, Archivist Contact Telephone Number: +44 (0) 131 650 3392 Contact Email Address: m.barfoot@ed.ac.uk Web Site: http://www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk Collection Subject Strengths: History of Hospitals, History of Midwifery, History of Psychiatry [show all 4] Organization Type: Museum Address: 9A St Thomas' Street Southmark City: London Zip / Postal Code: SE1 9RY Country: United Kingdom Telephone Number: 0207 188 2679 Fax Number: +0207 378 8383 Abstract: The Museum exists in the roof of St Thomas Church London, which is a Grade 2* building built in 1703. When closed in 1862 due to the relocation of St Thomas' Hospital, to Lambeth, London, the hospital architecture was missing from history and for nearly one hundred years until its rediscovery in 1956. This public museum consists of Herb Garret and the Women's Operating Theatre of Old St Thomas' Hospital built in 1822 and holds displays on the history of medicine and herb use of the old (United) Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, London. Displays on the history of medicine contain more than 1,000 nineteenth century surgical and pharmaceutical objects. A panoramic film is available online alongside some objects of the museums' is accessible via the Museum's website <a href="http://www.thegarret.org.uk/tour.htm" > http://www.thegarret.org.uk/tour.htm </a>. Holdings: The Museum does not have its own archive on site. The Museum exists in the roof of a church and consists of the eighteenth century oak beamed Herb Garret and nineteenth century women's Operating Theatre of Old St Thomas' Hospital. The Old Operating Theatre was in use from 1822-62, for women patients only and due to its dates, saw little use of anaesthesia. No antiseptic procedure or hand washing was ever undertaken in the theater. The Museum holds over 1,000 historical medical instruments including: a nineteenth century wooden operating table, a nineteenth century carbolic spray used at Guy's Hospital, nineteenth century amputation, trephination, obstetric and anaesthetic instruments and equipment. The collection also holds late nineteenth century anatomical teaching models and nineteenth century pharmaceutical equipment from carboys shop rounds through to pill making. Some archive material is accessible via the Museum website. Contact Name, Title: Karen Howell, Curator Contact Telephone Number: +0207 188 2679 Contact Email Address: curator@thegarret.org.uk Web Site: http://oldoperatingtheatre.com/ Collection Subject Strengths: History of Hospitals, History of Medicine, History of Pharmacology and Pharmacy [show all 5] Organization Type: Library Address: Alverstoke Gosport City: Hampshire Zip / Postal Code: BA9 9EJ Country: United Kingdom Telephone Number: (0) 23 9276 8238 Abstract: The main subject area is naval medicine and its history. The Historic Collections Library holds the amalgamated collections of the former Royal Naval Hospitals at Haslar and Plymouth, whose libraries were set up in 1827 and 1832 respectively. There is a run of the Navy List from 1814, with some omissions, and a complete run of Health of the Navy (1830s-1970s). Please note that service records, Medical Officers’ Journals, etc. are held at The National Archives, Kew. SERVICES: Fragile and historic material may not be copied; photocopying of other material may be carried out by arrangement, at the discretion of the librarian, who is the sole member of staff. There is no lending, but reference work is undertaken and bibliographies are compiled. Please contact Historic Collections Librarian, Jane Wickenden via email at INM-CS-InfoHistLib@mod.uk to obtain a visitors' guide. Holdings: It is not possible to provide an absolute breakdown of volumes by century, as cataloguing is not yet complete and the exact size of the collection has not been established. There are known to be no incunabula. Going by present trends, totals by century may be: 16th cent., 10+vols; 17th cent., 100+vols; 18th cent., 1600+ vols; 19th cent., 4140+vols., 20th cent., 1500+vols. There are no current journals, but several closed sequences of 18th and 19th century medical journals. There are 32 boxes of archive and photographic material, a few dozen pieces of artwork, less than a dozen manuscripts and a collection of surgical instruments, not all on display. Contact Name, Title: J.V.S. Wickenden, Historic Collections Librarian Contact Telephone Number: +44 (0) 23 9276 8238 Contact Email Address: INM-CS-InfoHistLib@mod.uk Collection Subject Strengths: History of Hospitals, History of Medicine, History of Military/Naval Medicine Organization Type: Archive Address: Monks Orchard Road Beckenham City: Kent Zip / Postal Code: BR3 3BX Country: United Kingdom Telephone Number: 001 4420 3228 4227 Fax Number: +001 4420 3228 4045 Abstract: The museum contains a remarkable collection of pictures by artists who have suffered from mental disorder, including Richard Dadd and Louis Wain. The Archives document the history of Bethlem, the Maudsley and Warlingham Park Hospitals. Opening hours: Monday through Friday 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (The Archives by appointment only). Holdings: Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum is approved by the UK National Archives as the 'place of deposit' for the archives of the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and its predecessors, including the records of Bethlem, the Maudsley, and Warlingham Park Hospitals, and the joint records of Bridewell and Bethlem Hospitals. The museum collections comprise works of art by artists who have suffered from mental health problems (including the Guttman-Maclay Collection of psychiatric art) and items illustrating the history of mental health treatment. Contact Name, Title: J. Michael Phillips Contact Telephone Number: +001 4420 3228 4307 Contact Email Address: jmichael.phillips@slam.nhs.uk Web Site: https://museumofthemind.org.uk/collections/archives Collection Subject Strengths: History of Hospitals, History of Psychiatry, History of Psychology Organization Type: Museum Address: St Mary's Hospital Praed Street City: London Zip / Postal Code: W2 1NY Country: United Kingdom Telephone Number: (0)207 886 6528 Fax Number: +44(0)207 886 6739 Abstract: Laboratory in which Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin reconstructed as it was in 1928 at the time of the discovery of penicillin, with background collection. Also, the archives of St Mary's Hospital, St Mary's Medical School, the Wright Fleming Institute, Samaritan Free Hospital for Women, Western Ophthalmic Hospital, Paddington Green Children's Hospital, St Luke's Hospital for the Dying Poor, Princess Louise Kensington Hospital for Children, the Friedenheim (later St Columba's) Hospital and St Charles' Hospital. Museum is open Monday through Thursday from 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. and other times by advance appointment. Access to Archives by appointment Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Open subject to Freedom of Information and Data Protection Acts. Holdings: Extensive archival collections of hospital archives relating to history of medicine and medical education, including photographs. Contact Name, Title: Kevin Brown, Trust Archivist and Curator Contact Telephone Number: +44(0)207 886 6528 Contact Email Address: Kevin.Brown@imperial.nhs.uk Web Site: http://www.imperial.nhs.uk/ Collection Subject Strengths: History of Hospitals, History of Medicine
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