East Lothian Hospitals Board of Management
Scope and Contents
Board of Management minutes 1950-1974; Finance Committee minutes 1950-1974; General Purposes Committee minutes 1950-1972; miscellaneous committee minutes 1950-1973; patient statistics 1971-1974; financial records 1948-1950; Scottish Home and Health Department Circulars 1948-1974
Dates
- Creation: 1948-1974
Language of Materials
English.
Conditions Governing Access
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Biographical / Historical
The National Health Services (Scotland) Act 1947 set up Regional Hospital Boards and, within them, Boards of Management responsible for the administration of groups of hospitals. This system operated until the reorganisation of the National Health Service in 1974.
The Board of Management for East Lothian Hospitals formed part of the South Eastern Regional Hospital Board and consisted of the undernoted hospitals. Reference numbers in brackets refer to pre 1948 records of these hospitals.
Alderston Convalescent Home, Haddington (LHB19)
Belhaven Hospital, Dunbar
Dunbar Cottage Hospital (LHB18)
East Fortune Hospital, North Berwick (LHB39)
Edington Cottage Hospital, North Berwick
Haddington Smallpox Hospital
Herdmanflat Hospital, Haddington¹
The Knoll Maternity Hospital, Duns² (LHB20)
Polish Convalescent Home, Luffness House, Aberlady (closed 1956)
Roodlands General Hospital, Haddington (LHB21)
Vert Memorial Hospital, Haddington (LHB22)
Whitchester Cottage Hospital, Duns²
From 1974 to 1984 these hospitals formed part of the North Lothian District of Lothian Health Board (see LHB27). Copies of press cuttings and notes relating to East Lothian hospitals will be found at GN79.
¹ From 1948-1957 Herdmanflat Hospital was part of the Rosslynlee and Haddington Mental Hospitals Board of Management. On the dissolution of that Board in April 1957 Herdmanflat Hospital transferred to the Board of Management for East Lothian Hospitals.
² On 1st April 1955 these hospitals transferred to the Borders Hospitals Board of Management.
Full Extent
3 shelf metres: bound volumes, papers
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
Robert Wilson, Administrator, East Lothian Hospitals, October 1983
Accruals
No further accessions are expected
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- East Lothian Hospitals Board of Management
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Repository Details
Part of the Lothian Health Services Archive Repository
Centre for Research Collections
Edinburgh University Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
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