ID22451
Reference
Description

Belfast [Royal] Hospital Management Committee Minutes:

1949-1950

1951-1952

1952-1952

1954-1957

1957-1961

1962-1970

1970-1973

These 7 volumes of bound and typed minutes list women as committee members and refer to staff wages, appointments and general hospital management. For instance, 'new rates of wages for Domestic Staff recently issued which, after taking into account the payment of overtime, would mean that in some cases a domestic servant could receive substantially more than Staff Nurses and Lady Cooks', 21 March 1949.

AccessBy prior appointment, some restrictions may apply.
Date1949-1973
Century20th
Keywords
Note

Useful publications are R.S.J. Clarke, The Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast: A History, 1797-1997 (Belfast, 1997) and Peggy Donaldson, Yes Matron - A History of Nurses and Nursing at the Royal Victoria Hospital (Belfast, 1988).

Repository NameRoyal Victoria Hospital, Belfast
AddressPublic Record Office of Northern Ireland 2 Titanic Boulevard Titanic Quarter Belfast
UK Postal CodeBT3 9HQ
Telephone+44 28-9053-4800
Email Addressproni@communities-ni.gov.uk
Repository Web Addresshttps://www.nidirect.gov.uk/campaigns/public-record-office-n...
CommentStaff of the Women's History Project constructed an outline list of the material held in this repository. Due to time constraints not all items in this repository were examined individually. The records of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, are now held in PRONI.
latitude54.60430
longitude-5.91036