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Gramps has suggested a Hospitals Topic.

Right then, first, as with the Parks lets put together a A - Z list. I will convert it to a listing (Usual Format) once we have come up with a full list.

Open to discussions, what qualifies?

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Gramps has suggested a Hospitals Topic.

Right then, first, as with the Parks lets put together a A - Z list. I will convert it to a listing (Usual Format) once we have come up with a full list.

Open to discussions, what qualifies?

Early Ones

The Shrewsbury Hospital & the one up Spital Hill? ;-)

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23 April 1792

A meeting was held to discuss the possibility of building a hospital in Sheffield and a subscription list was opened. This rapidly raised the £15,000 required to build the General Infirmary at Upperthorpe Meadows.

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More on Spital Hill

"The establishment of a hospital for poor lepers by William de Lovetot, Lord of Hallamshire,

in 1181. Leprosy was then very prevalent and similar institutions were established in many English

towns. St Leonard's hospital was built on the land granted by de Lovetot near the

bridge over the Don; dissolved in the reign of Henry VIII, nothing now remains but

the name of Spital Hill."

R. Church

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We need I think to distinguish between the old and new meaning of the word 'hospital'.

The leper, Shrewsbury and Hollis hospitals were really hospices for people unable to fend for themselves in society rather than places for the treatment of the sick and injured. The chapel on Lady's Bridge was also put to this purpose after the abolition of the Chanties.

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We need I think to distinguish between the old and new meaning of the word 'hospital'.

The leper, Shrewsbury and Hollis hospitals were really hospices for people unable to fend for themselves in society rather than places for the treatment of the sick and injured. The chapel on Lady's Bridge was also put to this purpose after the abolition of the Chanties.

Here's an initial list from the index of Edward Vickers 'Popular History of Sheffield'

Charles Clifford Dental

Children's

City General

Crimicar Lane

Dispensary (1st)

Fulwood Annexe

General Infimary

Hallamshire

Hollis

Jessop

King Edward V11

Lodge Moor

Middlewood

Nether Edge

Royal

Ryegate Annexe

Saint Joseph's

Saint Leonard's

Sheffield Public

Shrewsbury

Thornbury Annexe

Weston Park

wharcliffe

Whitely Wood Clinic

Winter Street

Women's (1st)

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By gum ! That's a long list laddie lol

I only suggested this because of the apparent confusion between Lodge Moor and Crimicar Lane but anyway here's a few details for starters.

Nether Edge Hospital began life as the Ecclesall Union Workhouse in 1844. After 1929 it was renamed Nether Edge Hospital and had general wards, a maternerty hospital and TB sanitaria. Several buildings were hit by bombs during the blitz of 1940. The hospital site was redevloped for housing in the 1990s.

Hollow Meadows Hospital was originally a 'Workhouse Farm' administered by the Sheffield Union Board of Guardians for the employment of paupers. In 1879 it became an 'industrial' or reform School for children who were persistent truants. Further info neede on when the site became a hospital.

Northern General Hospital was developed from the Sheffield Union Fir Vale Workhouse opened in 1881. From 1930 the site became known as the City General Hospital and was again renamed in 1967 to the Northern General Hospital.

Think we need a separate post for each hospital at this stage. and | suspect there is already a lot of info already on the forum about several of the major hospitals which needs linking in or cut'n'paste jobs.

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Crimicar lane is difficult. All I have found is a short reference by Mary Walton to the effect that it was built as a sanatorium by the 'Corporation' in 1902 for the treatment of pulmonary disease, principally tuberculosis.

Lodge Moor was built as a Fever Isolation Hospital. Started in 1887 following a widespread outbreak of smallpox, twelve wooden huts were hastily erected in the wilds of Lodge Moor and surrounded by a fence; it was named as the Borough Small Pox Hospital. A Matron was appoinred with a staff of eighteen nurses, sixteen servants and two porters who lived on the premises. From 1892 the wooden huts were gradually replaced by stone buildings which continued until 1935. The elimination of smallpox did not remove the need for an isolation hospital as there were still diphtheria, scarlet fever and measles etc. to deal with.

Further wards were added until 1940 and eventually with the decline of infectious diseases Lodge Moor became more of a general hospital.

There was another 'fever' hospital in Sheffield on Winter street. This was built in 1881 and known as the Borough Hospital for Infectious Diseases. It was extended in 1892 and in 1898 eight cottages were added to enable 'contacts' of the inmates to be accommodated in isolation from the general population. In 1912 the use of the hospital was changed to a TB sanatorium. it was used as a military hospital during WWI and was later renamed as St. George's Hospital. [i have no recollection of this place...does anyone else have some input ??]

Need some info on Common Side Sanatorium.

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There was another 'fever' hospital in Sheffield on Winter street. This was built in 1881 and known as the Borough Hospital for Infectious Diseases. It was extended in 1892 and in 1898 eight cottages were added to enable 'contacts' of the inmates to be accommodated in isolation from the general population. In 1912 the use of the hospital was changed to a TB sanatorium. it was used as a military hospital during WWI and was later renamed as St. George's Hospital. [i have no recollection of this place...does anyone else have some input ??]

Winter Street Fever Hospital, aye, yes indeed. I've spent a good two hours looking for any vaguely historical information about this place; needless to say I've found nowt of consequence. A real tough one.

Originally built for infectious diseases (other than smallpox) and tuberculosis.

Miss Florence Ida Turnell was appointed Matron in 1897.

winter.pdf

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Crimicar lane is difficult. All I have found is a short reference by Mary Walton to the effect that it was built as a sanatorium by the 'Corporation' in 1902 for the treatment of pulmonary disease, principally tuberculosis.

Lodge Moor was built as a Fever Isolation Hospital. Started in 1887 following a widespread outbreak of smallpox, twelve wooden huts were hastily erected in the wilds of Lodge Moor and surrounded by a fence; it was named as the Borough Small Pox Hospital. A Matron was appoinred with a staff of eighteen nurses, sixteen servants and two porters who lived on the premises. From 1892 the wooden huts were gradually replaced by stone buildings which continued until 1935. The elimination of smallpox did not remove the need for an isolation hospital as there were still diphtheria, scarlet fever and measles etc. to deal with.

Further wards were added until 1940 and eventually with the decline of infectious diseases Lodge Moor became more of a general hospital.

There was another 'fever' hospital in Sheffield on Winter street. This was built in 1881 and known as the Borough Hospital for Infectious Diseases. It was extended in 1892 and in 1898 eight cottages were added to enable 'contacts' of the inmates to be accommodated in isolation from the general population. In 1912 the use of the hospital was changed to a TB sanatorium. it was used as a military hospital during WWI and was later renamed as St. George's Hospital. [i have no recollection of this place...does anyone else have some input ??]

Need some info on Common Side Sanatorium.

Winter Street Hospital 1881-1976

Built 1881 at a cost of £20,000. It consisted of four blocks containing 80 beds and eight single-bedded wards (with airing courts on the roof).

1892 - the Nurses home was built, followed by an isolation block of four wards.

1898 - a row of cottages in Dart Square were taken over to house more tuberculosis patients.

Before the First World War the main cases taken in were scarlet fever and diphtheria.

Sheffield's Tuberculosis Scheme was discussed at meetings of the City Health Committee. In late 1913 the Council approved the principle of taking over cases of tuberculosis at that time dealt with by the Poor Law Authorities, and decided that there should be two separate sanatoria within easy reach of the city, one for men (150 beds) and one for women (c.100 beds). Approval was granted in January 1914 for the purchase of a site in the Rivelin Valley (for women); and in late 1914 it was decided that land at Buck Wood be purchased for site for male sanatorium. These were apparently not built, the onset of the First World War presumably putting an end to these plans.

The hospital was handed over to the military authorities, to be used for military wounded, in March 1915. Wards had been prepared for this since October 1914 and the patients had been transferred out to Crimicar Lane Hospital on 25 February 1915.

During the Second World War the hospital was again used for the military sick.

After the war the hospital reverted to accommodating male and female tuberculosis cases, and had beds for 110 patients.

Bed places were set at 103 in 1954 when beds placed in the middle of wards were removed to reduce overcrowding. Children at the hospital were transferred to Ash House Hospital School in 1957. Closure by March 1970 was proposed in November 1968; the patients would be transferred to Lodge Moor Hospital. In 1971 spending was approved to adapt the premises to form a geriatric day hospital with 40 places. In mid 1974 the 84 beds were too many for the staff to cope with and the number was reduced to 65.

In October 1974 Trent Regional Health Authority put the upgrading of Winter St Hospital out to tender; during which works the patients were moved out elsewhere. On 10 December 1975 it was recommended that the proposal to rename the reopened hospital ' St George's Hospital' be passed to Sheffield Area Health Health Authority.

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http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/rec...m=2008-06-18#-1

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Crimicar lane is difficult. All I have found is a short reference by Mary Walton to the effect that it was built as a sanatorium by the 'Corporation' in 1902 for the treatment of pulmonary disease, principally tuberculosis.

City Hospital and Sanatorium, Crimicar Lane

Spelling is Sanatorium in 1911 & 1925, Sanitorium in 1919

1911

H. Williams Egerton, Medical Superintendent

Alexander Leggat, Senior Assistant Medical Officer

Miss Annie Robinson, Marton

1919

HJ Egerton Hutchins William, Medical Superintentent [RichardB - suspect this is H Williams Egerton, as above]

John Rennie, Visiting Physician

Miss Annie Robinson, Matron.

1925

HJ Egerton Hutchins William, Medical Superintentent [RichardB - suspect this is H Williams Egerton, as above]

John Rennie, Resident Physician

Miss Annie Robinson, Matron.

http://www.sheffieldrecordsonline.org.uk/

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Those were the days! Nowaday's there would be forty attachments with contracts, equal opps questionnaires, CRB checks, Codes of Practice and lord knows what else!

[Mother working as a Nurse (Probationer), aged 16]

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