  |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Websites: Small and Special, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children 1852-1914 Posted: 12 December 2007 By: Rick Roberts, Biography & Archived Articles Small and Special is a collection of resources relating to the early years of The Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street, London -- England’s first in-patient children’s hospital. Here you can trace a patient, learn about childhood diseases, or investigate a member of the medical staff. Small and Special includes a database of patient admission records - from the Hospital’s first in-patient in 1852 to the last admission in 1914; a collection of articles on the early history of the Hospital and pen-portraits of the Hospital’s personalities; and a gallery of images. Searching the database and viewing the results is free. Their optional registration, also free, enables one to see more information. "Registrants" need only provide their name and email address.  Built in 1893, it replaced the original Georgian hospital buildings. To the left is the façade of the 1875 building in Powis Place, and to the right, the new Astor Outpatient's department, which opened in 1908 About the project The Great Ormond Street Historical Patient Database Project, launched in 2001, is the result of a partnership between Kingston University’s Centre for Local History Studies and the Museum and Archives Department of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust. Funding for the project came principally from the Research Resources in Medical History Programme of the Wellcome Trust, with additional financial support from the Friends of Great Ormond Street Hospital, the Nuffield Foundation and the History Research Unit at Kingston University.
The Admission Registers of the Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street, from its opening in February 1852 until December 31st 1914, form the core of the project, and will be complemented at a later date by Registers of Cromwell House, the hospital’s convalescent home, from 1869 until December 1910. The Hospital Registers are of uniform format. Each entry gives the child’s name, age (in years and months), sex, and address. Further columns give diagnosis, which can include as many as four separate conditions, date of admission into the hospital and date of attack. The date of discharge is recorded, along with the result of treatment, which is given as ‘Recovered’, ‘Relieved’, ‘Not Relieved’ or ‘Died’. A column for remarks gives such details as operations performed, drugs issued, brief post-mortem results or an explanation for a premature discharge of the child from the hospital. The final column gives the name of the hospital governor or medical officer who sponsored the patient. In later versions, the Registers also included the name of the admitting doctor and the ward the child was initially admitted to. Small and Special Website The Small and Special website has been developed, with funds provided by The Friends of the Children of Great Ormond Street, to make the database available to as wide an audience as possible, regardless of location or field of interest. Access is unrestricted and is completely free to use. Some restrictions have been applied to the volume of data which can be viewed at any one time, to protect the database from unscrupulous users. Small and Special also contains a library of articles on subjects connected to the Hospital and the period, including a history of the Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street, pen-portraits of some of the medical officers, nurses and patients, and articles on the buildings which made up the Victorian and Edwardian institution. Most of the articles have been written by historian, Dr Andrea Tanner, the architect of the Project. The remainder have been contributed by archivist Nicholas Baldwin, and others involved in the Project. The articles are complemented by a collection of images of the Hospital from the period. Search the database now Source: Small and Special website Shopping Cart & Order Desk Global Genealogy & History Shoppe 1-800-361-5168 ( 9-5 Monday to Friday )
|
|
|
*The Global Gazette is a unit of GlobalGenealogy.com Inc. Copyright© 1995 - 2008 GlobalGenealogy.com Inc. All Rights Reserved |
