LHB3: Management 1856-1958; finance 1876-1974; administration 1859-1988; staff 1892-1983; Queen Mary Nursing Home 1913-1970; patients (bound records) 1844-1986; patients (unbound records) 1933-1954; LHB3A: nursing 1768-1994
Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital and Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion
This material is held atLothian Health Services Archive
- Reference
- GB 239 LHB3, LHB3A
- Dates of Creation
- 1768-1994
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English.
- Physical Description
- 85.55 shelf metres: bound volumes and papers
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Opened in 1879 as Edinburgh's first planned maternity hospital building and preceded by the General Lying in Hospital (1793) and its variously named successors. Funded by a collection to commemorate Sir James Young Simpson's contribution to obstetrics. Began first ante-natal clinic in Britain (1915); a post-natal clinic followed in 1926, the same year it amalgamated with the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion opened in 1939. From 1939 the "Simpson" was directly managed by the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh as one of its grouped hospitals and became part of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh National Health Service Trust Hospital in 1994. As a result of hospital re-organisation in 1999, it was placed in the Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Arrangement
Chronological within record class
Access Information
Normal 30 year and 75 year Scottish closure rules apply
Acquisition Information
Mrs Sutherland, Records Officer, SMMP October 1983; LHB3A Monica Thompson, Professional Development Office, SMMP, July 1997
Note
Compiled by Mike Barfoot and Jenny McDermott using existing handlists
Other Finding Aids
Manual item-level descriptive list available
Custodial History
Records held within the National Health Service prior to transfer
Accruals
Further accessions are expected
Bibliography
E.F. Catford. The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh 1929-1979. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1984.