Edinburgh Northern Hospitals Board of Management
Scope and Contents
Board of Management and committee minutes 1948-1974; planning records 1950; Western General Hospital building extensions, plant etc 1953-1969; Eastern General Hospital building, plant etc 1960-1966; Northern General Hospital building, plant etc 1960-1967; Leith Hospital building, plant etc 1959-1966; miscellaneous 1960-1968
Dates
- Creation: 1948-1974
Language of Materials
English.
Conditions Governing Access
Normal 30 year Scottish closure rules apply
Biographical / Historical
Set up as a result of the NHS (Scotland) Act of 1947 under the control of the South Eastern Regional Hospital Board. Operated until the reorganisation of the NHS in 1974. The following were included: Eastern General Hospital, Leith Hospital, Musselburgh Maternity Hospital, Northern General Hospital, Western General Hospital. From 1974-1984, these hospitals were part of the North Lothian District of Lothian Health Board.
Extent
1 shelf metre: papers
Arrangement
Chronological within record class
Other Finding Aids
Manual item-level descriptive list available
Custodial History
Records held within the National Health Service prior to transfer
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Mrs Hewitt, Home Warden, Eastern General Hospital, April 1983
Accruals
No further accessions are expected
- Title
- Edinburgh Northern Hospitals Board of Management
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Lothian Health Services Archive Repository
Centre for Research Collections
Edinburgh University Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44 (0)131 650 3392
lhsa@ed.ac.uk