Roodlands General Hospital
Scope and Contents
Register of admissions and discharges 1950-1966; register of operations 1954-1965; case books 1949-1950; ward registers 1952-1973
Dates
- Creation: 1950-1973
Language of Materials
English.
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
Roodlands General Hospital was originally the infectious diseases hospital for the western district of the County of East Lothian. It first appears in Burdett’s Hospitals and Charities in 1922/23, at this time the hospital had 34 beds. At the reorganisation of local authority health services in 1930, it was decided that all cases of infectious diseases in the county and the seven burghs of East Lothian should be treated in this hospital. Consequently, its name was changed from the Combination Hospital, Haddington to the County Infectious Diseases Hospital. By this time the hospital housed 70 beds in total.
In 1948, the hospital transferred to the National Health Service and became part of the East Lothian Hospitals Board of Management (see LHB17). Its use changed to a general hospital and it was renamed Roodlands General Hospital. On the reorganisation of the National Health Service in 1974, it became 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.
Extent
9 Volumes
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
Robert Wilson, Administrator, East Lothian Hospitals, October 1983
Accruals
No further accessions are expected
- Title
- Roodlands General Hospital
- Author
- Mike Barfoot, Jenny McDermott, Farhana Islam.
- 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
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