Ancoats Hospital
1828-1967
Archives
Total copies: 1
Annual Reports, 1828-1947;
Records of Committees : General Committee, 1873 - 1914; Management Committee, 1914 - 1948; Medical Committee, 1917 - 1966; Building and Finance Sub-Committees, 1957 - 1967; Prevention of Cross-infection and Cleaning Sub-Committees, 1959 - 1966.; Ancoats Convalescent Home, 1904 - 1947
Ancoats Hospital and Ancoats Convalescent Home House Sub-Committee, 1948 - 1966.;
Medical Registers [RESTRICTED ACCESS] : Operation register, 1924
Miscellaneous papers : Visitors' Book, 1922 - 1941; Histories of Ancoats Hospital; Book of signatures presented to Miss Maud Earl, 1945; North Manchester Hospital Management Committee yearbook, 1950.
Place:/Ancoats/Manchester/Manchester/Lancashire/England
Title:
Ancoats Hospital
Date of work:
1828-1967
Reference number:
GB127.M325
Level of description:
Fonds
Includes:
Custodial history:
Ancoats Hospital started life as the Ardwick and Ancoats Dispensary which opened in 1828 in Great Ancoats Street and moved to Mill Street in 1869. As a dispensary it contained no beds: people were treated as out-patients or visited at home. The move to new larger premises in Mill Street in 1873 allowed for the provision of beds and the transition from dispensary to hospital.
In contrast to the poor law infirmaries at Withington and Crumpsall, Ancoats was a voluntary hospital, funded by subscribers and benefactors who were acknowledged in each annual report (ref: M325/1/1/1-5). The influx of 'Subscriptions from Workpeople', together with a substantial gift and bequest from Miss Brackenbury allowed for the construction of the hospital building in 1872-3. A Workpeoples Fund Committee developed which did a great deal of fundraising work for the hospital until 1948. In 1904 a convalescent home was opened at Great Warford near Alderley Edge, built using money donated by Mrs. Crossley, on land given by the David Lewis Trust. It was closed in 1967 by which time urban conditions had improved sufficiently to make two weeks' convalescence in the country no longer a necessary part of hospital treatment (ref: M325/2/6,7).
Source:
The following records were deposited by Ancoats Hospital in 1979
Access restrictions:
UnrestrictedRecords containing personal, medical information about individuals are on restricted access for 100 years.
M325/2/3/1 - restricted access until 1 Jan 2022
M325/2/3/2 - restricted access unti 1 Jan 2025
M325/2/3/3 - restricted access until 1 Jan 2031
M325/3/1/1 - restricted access unti 1 Jan 2025
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Use restrictions:
Unrestricted
Record types:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Language:
English
Record number:
7193503