Booth Hall Hospital
1909-1966
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Admission registers, 1938-1955; Summary of admissions, 1956-1966; Creed registers, 1909-1945; Mortuary register, 1942-1948; Receipt and Refund ledger, 1927-1930; Operation registers, 1909-1956; Post Mortem books, 1926-1947; Dental Patients register, 1939-1944.
Related Material:Admission registers 1965-1996 and Hospital Board minutes 1948-1971held by Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
For a history of the hospital see Raymond Hargreaves, The Story of Booth Hall Hospital: curing and caring for northern children (Ross Anderson, 1987) which is held in the Local Studies Library (ref: Q 362.11HA).
Place:/Salford/Manchester/Lancashire/England
Repository:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Title:
Booth Hall Hospital
Date of work:
1909-1966
Reference number:
GB127.M302
Level of description:
Fonds
Includes:
Custodial history:
Booth Hall in Blackley was built during the early seventeenth century by Humphrey Booth, a Salford man noted for his philanthropy. The original hall building was demolished in 1907 and the site, off Charlestown Road, was acquired by Prestwich Poor Law Union for the construction of a new general-purpose infirmary.
On the amalgamation of the Manchester, Chorlton and Prestwich Unions in 1915, which created the single Manchester Poor Law Union, the Prestwich infirmary was designated a children's hospital. As such it became part of the Union's services for the care of children, alongside Styal Cottage Homes, designed to remove children from the workhouse environment, Swinton Home and Schools for the 'mentally defective', and Dr Rhodes Memorial Home, a reception home for healthy children.
Booth Hall continued to expand as a children's hospital through the major local government reorganisations: the Local Government Act of 1929 which dismantled the poor law unions; the creation of the National Health Service in 1948. Under the NHS, Booth Hall was united with Monsall Hospital and the Duchess of York Babies Hospital to form the Manchester Babies and Children Hospital Management Committee. One of the Committee's initial concerns was to halt the admission of healthy children to the hospital; that is abandoned infants awaiting adoption; also older children who had been evacuated from London during the war and had no one or nowhere to return to.
Source:
The following records were deposited by Booth Hall Hospital in 1978
Access restrictions:
UnrestrictedOperation registers (M302/2/1/1-13) and Dental Patient register (M302/2/3/1) are on restricted access for 100 years. This is in accordance with Section 40 of the Freedom of Information Act.Hospital records. These records are subject to FOIA and can be accessed through the relevant FOIA/DP procedures.
For complex enquiries we should contact hospital on behalf of the member of public - contact:
Booth Hall and Royal Manchester Children's Hospitals
Trust Headquarters
The Manchester Royal Infirmary, Cobbett House,
Oxford Road, Manchester. M13 9WL.
email foi@mft.nhs.uk
Use restrictions:
Unrestricted
Language:
English
Record number:
7193136
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