St. Vincent Medical Center records
Collection Overview
Abstract
Financial, patient, and patient account registers, with information on age, sex, nativity, parents' names, residence, and date of death, if applicable. Includes some registers with information on Sisters, Boarders, Orphans, and Domestic help.
Dates
- Creation: 1855-1932
Extent
12 Reels (12 microfilm reels)
Creator
- St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center (Toledo, Ohio) (Organization)
Scope and Contents
Included in the collection is a Financial Record, 1898-1909, which contains patient accounts, employees wages, altar bread and stamps register, and records of the arrival and departure of the Sisters; a Boarders Register, 1864-1894; Marine Patient Register, 1858-1898; Orphans and Domestic Help Register, 1855-1889; and two Patient Registers, 1855-1908, which are indexed. These registers contain such information as the patient's age, country of nativity, religion, parents' names, and patient's date of death, if applicable. Interestingly, the Patient Register of 1855-1889 contains the names of several Confederate soldiers, no doubt prisoners of war, who were admitted to the hospital.
Also included in the collection are forty-four (44) Patient Account Registers which contain, in most cases, the patient's birthplace, age, and residence.
Conditions Governing Access
No known access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
St. Vincent Medical Center has retained all rights to the original records, as well as any microfilmed versions, negatives, and reproductions, of whatever type, of such records. All requests for duplicate copies, with the exception of paper photocopies, require written authorization from St. Vincent Medical Center.
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The St. Vincent Medical Center records were transferred to microfilming to the Center for Archival Collections with the cooperation of Sister Janet Gallup in August 1996.
Processing Information
This finding aid was prepared by Susan Hughes in August 1996.
Subject
- St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center (Toledo, Ohio) (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the St. Vincent Medical Center records
- Author
- Susan Hughes, Ellen Messner, Nick Pavlik
- Date
- August 1996, July 2021, December 2023
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin