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LHB3 Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital and Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion

Patients (bound records)

Reference Code: GB239 LHB3
Title: Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital and Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion: Patients (bound records)
Dates of Creation of Material: 1844-1993
Level of Description: Sub-fonds
Extent and Medium of the Unit of Description: 51 shelf metres: bound volumes
Name of creator(s): Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital; Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion
Scope and Content: Registers of patients 1871-1961; admissions 1956-1978; ward registers 1939-1952; labour ward registers 1960-1986; house surgeon's ward registers 1951-1954; registers of births 1847-1959; Matron's admission registers 1960-1983; Antenatal Department registers 1919-1939; indoor case books 1844-1939; Clinical/Registrar's registers 1955-1982; special and ordinary indoor case books 1870-1922; outdoor casebooks 1844-1959; analysis books 1960; records of birth 1940-1965; register of deaths 1939-1963; post-mortem reports 1921; post-mortem books 1917-1920; deaths tables 1974; anaesthetic books 1966-1993
Conditions Governing Access: Access is subject to the terms of the NHS Records Management Code of Practice 2010, the UK Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
Language/Scripts of Material: English
Archivists' Notes: Compiled by Mike Barfoot and Jenny McDermott using existing handlists
Rules or Conventions: Description based on ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description International Council on Archives (2nd edition), 2000
Date(s) of Description: August 2002; updated June 2007, January 2011