Admission register, alphabetical series - Maternity Hostel, McBride Hospital (GRS/13679)

This series consists of a volume labelled 'Girls' Historys' (sic) that contains information about women admitted to the maternity hostel located at McBride Hospital. In 1978, the hospital had stopped providing maternity services, but offered a maternity hostel used mainly by unmarried women.

Entries record name, address, date of admission, date of discharge, birth date, estimated date of delivery, next of kin and notes that may include information how the woman came to the hostel, clinical information and details about the situation of the woman and/or baby after leaving the hostel.

Stapled to each entry is an admission application form that records personal details such as name, address, birth date, nationality, next of kin, expected date of delivery, normal occupation and education, as well as details about social history, medical history and financial arrangements. Some entries also have clinical information from public hospitals or correspondence attached.

Arranged alphabetically by name.

See GRS 13678 for records relating to earlier admissions.