Over 250 years of history
Just over 20 years ago in April 1999 Lord Butterfield opened the new diabetes and endocrine Centre at Addenbrooke's. The new centre was called the The Eleanor Cripps Diabetes and Endocrine Centre as a tribute to Eleanor Cripps who died of kidney failure after having longstanding diabetes. The new centre was made possible by the …
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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 …
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; …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
