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D1633 - Wirksworth Cottage Hospital - 1867-1966
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D1633
Title
Wirksworth Cottage Hospital
Date
1867-1966
Description
Including Management and committee minutes 1927-1966, Annual reports 1867-1947, various financial records c1906-1948, Building Plans 1926 and Inventories 1947-1965
Extent
4 boxes
Level
Fonds
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
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Archive Creator
Wirksworth Cottage Hospital
Administrative History
The Cottage Hospital at Wirksworth was founded in 1867 by Georgiana Hurt. It later became a maternity hospital, managed (from 1947) by the NHS Derby No.2 Hospital Management Committee.
Custodial History
Unless otherwise stated, these records were deposited in Derbyshire Record Office in April 1976 by the Secretary of St Oswald's Hospital, Ashbourne. D1633/12/1 was donated to Derbyshire Record Office in January 2020 by the former owner of one of the properties that the building was later divided into.
Organisation Sub-Type
Hospitals
Related Material
See D161 for a 19th century plan of the hospital, minutes, accounts and other records of the hospital. See D373/HW/M/1 for the Board of Management Minute book 1945-1948.
Term
Maternity hospitals
Hospitals
Health services
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Wirksworth; Wirksworth Maternity, formerly, Cottage Hospital; 1867-; Hospital
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Type
Wirksworth
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