COUNTRY WORKHOUSE INFIRMARIES.

Memories of the workhouse.

I trained as a doctor at the Middlesex Hospital, close to the centre of London. When it was built in the eighteenth century, the Middlesex was on the very edge of the city, in open fields, but London swallowed it up and then extended a huge distance beyond. The hospital found itself close to the capital’s main shopping streets and private medical consulting rooms. It became a leading national c...

Voluntary Hospitals and Poor Law Infirmaries

the Guild of Pharmacists on " The Future of the Voluntary and Municipal Hospitals." Considerations of space admit only of our giving such passages as bear immediately upon the important question of the relief of hospital pressure by utilising vacant beds in the Poor-Law Infirmaries. Mr. Morris began by pointing out that, although the Waiting List at the London now stands at 865, at the Whitecha...

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Treating Ulster's rural poor: the county infirmaries of Armagh and Down 1766-1851.

This paper considers the role of county infirmaries in providing health care for the inhabitants of two counties in south-east Ulster. It traces the establishment and management of these institutions from their beginnings shortly after the passing of the Infirmaries Act (1765) to the middle of the nineteenth century. From the available evidence, the accommodation, staff, patient numbers and die...

Lunatic Asylum in the Workhouse: St Peter’s Hospital, Bristol, 1698–1861

In recent years there has been growing acknowledgement of the place of workhouses within the range of institutional provision for mentally disordered people in nineteenth-century England. This article explores the situation in Bristol, where an entrenched workhouse-based model was retained for an extended period in the face of mounting external ideological and political pressures to provide a p...