LHB5 Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children

Patients (bound records)

Reference Code: GB239 LHB5
Title: Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children: Patients (bound records)
Dates of Creation of Material: 1860-1994
Level of Description: Sub-fonds
Extent and Medium of the Unit of Description: 12.5 shelf metres: bound volumes
Name of creator(s): Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children
Scope and Content: Admission registers 1916-1992; registers of in-patients 1860-1952; registers of out-patients 1865-1983; registers of surgical out-patients 1921-1950; operation books 1920-1986; index of cases, surgical wards 1898-1931; ward registers 1898-1994; disease registers 1889-1900; bound case notes 1900-1917; convalescent home registers 1920-1954; records of Ear Nose and Throat Department 1926-1987; unit registers 1950-1983; Urology Department case register 1949-1967; Ophthalmic Department register 1901-1943
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
Finding Aids: Manual item-level descriptive list available
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 Sept 2009, January 2011