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Page 1: Shedding Light on the Life of the Sick Child The Historic Hospital Admission Records Project Andrea Tanner Centre for Local History Studies Kingston University.

Shedding Light on the Life of the Sick Child

The Historic Hospital Admission Records Project

Andrea Tanner

Centre for Local History Studies

Kingston University

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Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children

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GOSH Admissions Registers

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Disease Coding

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Volunteers at Work, March 2009

Centre for Local History Studies, Kingston University

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Case Notes

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www.smallandspecial.org

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Geographic Origins of the Children

Leading Districts

Holborn 11.4%Islington 10.9%Pancras 10.2%Kensington 2.9%Hackney 2.7%Shoreditch 2.7%

Outside London 31%

ShoreditchHolborn

www.smallandspecial.org

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Geographic Origins of the Children

Leading Districts

1852-1870 1902-1914Holborn IslingtonPancras PancrasSt Giles (4) HolbornIslington HackneyMarylebone ShoreditchWestminster (3) Whitechapel (10)Kensington WoolwichSt Geo Han Sq (2) KensingtonStrand (5) Lambeth

Outside London 10% 45%

Shoreditch

Holborn

www.smallandspecial.org

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Evelina Hospital for Sick Children From The Evelina, the story of a London Chidlren’s Hospital by HE Priestley

Glasgow Children’s Hospital at GarnethillFrom The Yorkhill Story by Edna Robinson

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Alexandra Hospital for Children with Hip Disease, Ellicott WardBarts Museum and Archive

Evelina Hospital, Large Medical Ward c 1907From The Evelina, the story of a London Chidlren’s Hospital by HE Priestley

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Hospital Period Covered Number records

Status

Great Ormond Street Hospital

1852-1914 84,190 Complete and available via www.smallandspecial.org

Cromwell House 1869-1904 10,292 Complete and available via www.smallandspecial.org

Evelina 1874-1902 11,187 Database build complete. Work on website in progress

Alexandra Hip Hospital

1867-1895 2,488 Database build complete. Work on website in progress

Glasgow Children’s Hospital

1883-1903 11,600 Inputting underway

Historic Hospital Admission Registers Project (HHARP)

Summary

TOTAL RECORDS: 119,757

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3 Hospital Archives

1 University History Department

Medical Coding Expertise from a major hospital

User Community

What is HHARP?

20+ Volunteers in London and Glasgow

HHARP

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