Thanks for sharing this Pat. It's quite sad I think that they have that policy but understandable I guess. With it being such an old hospital. Wasn't it the Workhouse at one time too? I'm sure i read that somewhere. Val patricia williams wrote: > I recently was spurred on by another lister to search for some old hospital > records. I found the details for St Mary's Hospital in Manchester (now > Manchester Royal as St Mary's is Maternity) on the AtoA site, which stated > the records were still kept at the Hospital. > I e-mailed the hospital and got a quick response which might be of general > interest. I was asking for the year 1916. > > > "the trust no longer have records from the period of time you require. > The Trust has a national destruction policy that allows records to be > destroyed after a certain length of time. > We are obliged to keep children's records until their twenty-fifth > birthday, we keep Gynaecology records for eight years and keep Obstetric > records for twenty-five years. > We do however have a lot of birth registers in our archive room." > > I would just like to add that the sender of this sad news is really trying > to be helpful and has requested more details in case she can help further. > Pat W > > > > > > > ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~ > > Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. > Other people can learn from them! > > ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-MANCHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.6.19/1663 - Release Date: 9/9/2008 7:04 PM > >