Dundee Women's Hospital and Nursing Home

• Reference:GB 254 THB 4
• Dates of Creation:1897-1948
• Name of Creator:
  Dundee Women's Hospital and Nursing Home
• Physical Description:
  0.20 linear metres

• Scope and Content

  Reports 1897-1945; minutes of subscribers and committees 1937-1971; balance sheet of endowment fund 1925.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  The Dundee Women's Hospital and Nursing Home developed from a dispensary for women and children set up in the 1890s for the treatment of women by female doctors. In May 1897 a small hospital, the Dundee Hospital for Women, was set up in Seafield Road to provide surgical care at a low cost. In 1914 the hospital was about to move to a new purpose-built building in Elliott Road, but this building was seriously damaged by a fire just before its planned opening. The hospital used temporary accommodation in Windsor Street until the repaired Elliot Road building opened on 24 February 1915 . When the National Health Service Act came into effect in 1948 the Women's Hospital and Nursing Home unsuccessfully petitioned the Secretary of State for permission to keep operating the hospital as a private charitable concern and not as part of the National Health Service. The hospital closed circa 1975.

• Arrangement

  Usually chronological within series.

• Access Information

  Open for consultation subject to preservation requirements. Access must also conform to the restrictions of the Data Protection Act (2018), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, 2018) and any other relevant legislation or restrictions. Clinical information is closed for 100 years.

• Acquisition Information

  The records were deposited by the University Medical History Museum in 1998 (AccM/374 and AccM/375).

• Note

  The Dundee Women's Hospital and Nursing Home developed from a dispensary for women and children set up in the 1890s for the treatment of women by female doctors. In May 1897 a small hospital, the Dundee Hospital for Women, was set up in Seafield Road to provide surgical care at a low cost. In 1914 the hospital was about to move to a new purpose-built building in Elliott Road, but this building was seriously damaged by a fire just before its planned opening. The hospital used temporary accommodation in Windsor Street until the repaired Elliot Road building opened on 24 February 1915 . When the National Health Service Act came into effect in 1948 the Women's Hospital and Nursing Home unsuccessfully petitioned the Secretary of State for permission to keep operating the hospital as a private charitable concern and not as part of the National Health Service. The hospital closed circa 1975.

• Other Finding Aids

  Descriptive list. Subject source lists and databases are also available.

• Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

  The records are on paper.

• Archivist's Note

  Amended by Kenneth Baxter, August 2023

• Conditions Governing Use

  Reproduction is available subject to preservation requirements. Charges may be made for this service, and copyright and other restrictions may apply; please check with the Duty Archivist.

• Custodial History

  Unknown

• Accruals

  Not expected

• Related Material

  THB1 Dundee Royal Infirmary

• Additional Information

  Published

  Catalogued

  THB 4

• Subjects

  Health