A number of historic annual reports and rules published by hospitals and infirmaries are available online. Some annual reports contained extracts of the rules. Click on the year to access a particular document (opens in a new window).
For annual reports, the year is the period covered by the report, not the year of publication.
All the documents are open access except those marked ^ which can be seen via Historical Texts (this requires an institutional subscription or Wellcome Library membership).
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Hospital / infirmary | Annual reports | Rules / statutes |
Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge | 1770^ ; 1771^ ; 1773^ ; 1775^ ; 1778^ ; 1781^ ; 1781^ ; 1782^ ; 1790^ | 1766^ ; 1769-70^
1770-71^ ; 1772-73^ ; 1774-75^ ; 1777-78^ ; 1778-79^ 1780-81^ ; 1781-82^ ; 1782-83^ ; 1783-84^ ; 1784-85^ ; 1785-86^ ; 1786-87^ ; 1787-88^ ; 1788-89^ ; 1789-90^ 1790-91^ ; 1791-92^ ; 1792-93^ ; 1793-94^ ; 1794-95^ ; 1797-98^ ; 1798-99^ |
Birkenhead Borough Hospital | – | 1864 |
Birmingham General Hospital | – | 1820 |
Bradford Royal Infirmary | – | 1905 |
Bristol (Royal) Infirmary | 1841 | 1870 |
Essex & Colchester General Hospital | – | 1822 |
Gloucester General Infirmary | 1780^ | – |
Kent & Canterbury Hospital | 1795^ | 1793 |
Kent County Ophthalmic Hospital | 1865 | – |
Leicester Infirmary | 1772-73^ | 1871 |
Lincoln County Hospital | 1791-92^ ; 1846 | 1769 ; 1846 |
Liverpool (Royal) Infirmary | – | 1785 |
Manchester (Royal) Infirmary | – | 1787 |
Margate Sea Bathing Infirmary | – | 1768 |
Middlesex Hospital | 1752-53 | – |
Moorfields Eye Hospital, London (originally the London Infirmary for Curing Diseases of the Eye, and later the London Ophthalmic Infirmary) | 1807-08 ; 1808-09 ; 1819 ; 1820 ; 1822 ; 1831-32 ; 1855 ; 1872 | – |
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Durham & Northumberland Infirmary | – | 1801 |
Norfolk & Norwich Hospital | – | 1786 |
Northampton County Hospital | 1765-66^ ; 1780-81^ ; 1782-83^ | – |
Nottingham General Hospital | – | 1781 |
Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham | – | c. 1840 |
Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford | – | 1788 |
Royal Brompton Hospital (formerly the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest) | 1841-42 ; 1861 | – |
Royal Chest Hospital, London (formerly the Infirmary for Asthma, Consumption & Other Diseases of the Lungs) | 1818 ; 1822 ; 1823 ; 1824 ; 1827 | – |
Royal Free Hospital for the Destitute Sick, London | 1838-39 ; 1856 | – |
Royal London Hospital (formerly the London Hospital for the Reception and Relief of Sick and Wounded Seamen, Manufacturers, Labourers, Women and Children) | 1854 | – |
St. Thomas’s Hospital, London | 1861-65 | 1853 ; 1900 |
Salisbury Infirmary | 1767-68^ | 1768 ; 1827 |
Salop (Shropshire) Infirmary | – | 1746 ; 1792 |
Sheffield General Hospital | – | 1813 |
Sheffield Royal Hospital (formerly Sheffield Public Hospital & Dispensary) | – | 1860 |
Suffolk General Hospital | – | 1825 (from page 65 onwards)^ |
Sunderland Royal Infirmary | – | 1824 |
Sussex County Hospital | – | 1828 |
University College Hospital, London (formerly Northern London Hospital) | – | 1835 |
Westminster Hospital, London | – | 1759 ; 1827 |
Westminster Lying-in Hospital, London | – | 1793 ; 1802 ; 1818 |
Yarmouth Hospital, Norfolk | 1856-57 | – |
York County Hospital | – | 1846^ |