Hospital Annual Reports & Rules Online

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^

1805-06

1766^ ; 1769-70^

1770-71^ ; 1772-73^ ; 1774-75^ ; 1777-78^ ; 1778-79^

1778

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) 1807-081808-09 ; 1819 ; 1820 ; 1822 ; 1831-32 ; 18551872
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) 18181822 ; 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^