Rush Green Hospital Student Midwives Registers

Of the fifteen registers, four contain individual student records for those studying midwifery and one for those studying the special baby care course. The registers cover the following dates:

November 1968 - April 1974

February 1973 - April 1976

July 1976 - April 1979

August 1975 - February 1977

The remaining registers contain attendance registers, assignments and coursework and examination marks for students studying midwifery. They cover the following dates:

August 1968 - August 1979

January 1973 - April 1976

February 1974 - December 1978

May 1974 - November 1977

July 1976 - July 1979

April 1979 - February 1982

July 1981 - August 1985

June 1982 - November 1986

August 1982 - September 1988

March 1988 - March 1993

August 1990 - March 1992

Rush Green Hospital was opened in April 1901 as the Romford Isolation Hospital by Romford Rural District Council. It opened with just 24 beds, though this number had risen to 70 by 1910. The hospital was greatly enlarged during the 1930s and it became a general hospital in 1939. Further expansion occurred after the Second World War and on 29th May 1969 the new maternity unit was officially opened by HRH the Duchess of Kent. This was followed by a Special Care Baby Unit for premature babies. Maternity services were later transferred to Harold Wood Hospital and in 1994 the local health authority decided to close the Hospital. Rush Green Hospital has now been demolished.

Records contain personal information therefore access will be at the discretion of the University Archives Officer in line with the Data Protection Act 1998.

Rush Green Hospital patients and operations registers, 1957-63 are available at Barking and Dagenham Archives and Local Studies Service.