Some of the records held in the Hospital Archives can be used for Family History, but how do people find if their ancestor has been a patient in the Hospital? One way is from reports in local newspapers such as this one in The Cambridge Independent Press of Friday 29 Dec 1916: I found the entry …
Hospital Administrator 3
This is third and final instalment of the memories of a former Hospital Administrator of Addenbrooke's Hospital. Over the next three weeks I am going to share with you the memories of a former Hospital Administrator of Addenbrooke's Hospital. As regards the building itself, the airiness and sense of space was most attractive to everybody; …
Hospital Administrator 2
This is the second instalment of the memories of a former Hospital Administrator of Addenbrooke's Hospital. The great consultant at the hospital was Walpole Lewin, an internationally famous neurosurgeon who had made his name in the Western Desert in World War 2, and was poached from the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. He may have been tempted …
Hospital Administrator
Over the next three weeks I am going to share with you the memories of a former Hospital Administrator of Addenbrooke's Hospital. In 1964 when I went there, the New Site (as we always called it) was one of the very few new hospital buildings of the NHS, which was still in its infancy. Capital …
First Month of Weekly Board Meetings
The first Weekly meeting of the Board of Addenbrooke’s was held on 7 July 1766. There were 8 people present and these are the first items listed: It was ordered that the Honorary Secretary write to the Secretaries of the Northampton and Salop hospitals to ask for an inventory of furniture of the said infirmary’s …
Triplets
I was doing some research in the inpatient case notes for someone and I came across, in the index of the volume for the year 1925, entries for four people with the same surname being admitted consecutively. Hospital records are closed for 100 years, so I have not used the family name or any other …
Radiotherapy at Addenbrooke’s
In June 1960 Addenbrooke's was designated as the Regional Centre for Radiotherapy, and plans for the first linear accelerator to be installed at Trumpington Street (the old site) were made, sadly no beds for the speciality could be provided at Hills Road until Stage 2. The story of Radiotherapy at Addenbrooke’s began in 1909. The …
