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| Vastrida |
SCARISBRICK ROAD INFIRMARYHelloCan anyone tell me if there are any old records available for the Infirmary in Scarisbrick Road for 1918? Many thanks. 
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| Jane |
Welcome to our forum
I have never come across any hospital records. As far as I'm aware after so many years they are destroyed - I imagine because there is no space to keep them You could try searching using A2A |
| Dotty |
Hospital recordsI knew a lady who was a midwife and she came across old files when she worked in Liverpool. Now that was a long time ago but maybe Bez might be able to throw some light on this question...Maybe we'll see her tonight and ask her to respond... Dotty 
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| Bez |
Nowadays hospital records seem to be destroyed after 3 years - certainly 3 years after someone has died.
Seeing that everytime I have to go to the DGH for something new I seem to have new notes, I suspect they don't keep them very long. At SGI (Southport General Infirmary) in Scarisbrick New Road, 40 years ago, they did seem to keep them for longer because I used to have to go down to the Records Office for old case notes if a patient had been in on a previous occasion. Now they just give you new notes and a new number. I have recently been attending 2 departments and have 2 different numbers. I have no idea if there are any very old records in a central location or not, but I suspect not as they often contain very "sensitive" information which you might not necessarily expect to find in medical notes. |
| Vastrida |
ThanksMany thanks for the help. I live down South or I would join you at the meeting tonight. |
| Degan |
Hospital RecordsI don't know if the hospital you are interested in is on the following site, but it has proved quite helpful to me.www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords It gives you a bit of info on some of the hospitals history, such as it was a workhouse, then changed to an infirmary and then became NHS and then closed, and I think it also tells you if there are any existing records and where they are. Hope this helps Degan |
| ray green |
Thanks for the link Degan. As a former client I looked at Christina Hartley Maternity Hospital and I see that Lancs, Records Office has admission/discharge records for the period of my stay(1944) which is pretty amazing. |