Crumpsall Hospital and Institution
1855-1991
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REGISTRAR'S RECORDS : Birth registers, 1934-1948; Death registers, 1933-1945; Death register indexes, 1929-1954.
HOSPITAL AND INSTITUTION REGISTERS: Indexes to patients (male), 1907-1934; Indexes to patients (female), 1912-1944; Admission and discharge registers (hospital), 1937-1949.; Admission and discharge registers (institution), 1933-1938; Register of admissions to the receiving wards, 1944-1946.; Mortuary particulars book, 1946-1948.
MEDICAL REGISTERS [RESTRICTED ACCESS] : Operation registers, 1927-1947; Ward registers, 1926-1958; Record of maternity cases (institution/auxiliary hospital, 1917-1952.; Register of patients: Prisoners of War and Army, 1944-1959.; Index to venereal disease register, 1920-1953.
NURSES' RECORDS : Nurses' registers, 1891-1944.; Day Nurse report books, 1893-1909.; Night Nurse report books, 1889-1914.; Patient diet book, 1891-1892.; Matron's letter book, 1917-1944.; Matron's 'Board Order Book', 1925-1930.;
MISCELLANEOUS HOSPITAL RECORDS : Medical Officer's report book, 1929-1933.; Physiotherapy weekly statistics, 1936-1949.; Pamphlets, 1916-1917.; Inventory cards, 1923.; Signs and notices, 1879-1910
PLANS AND DEEDS: Manchester New Workhouse (Mills and Murgatroyd, Architects and Co., Manchester), 1853-1892.; Manchester Union Crumpsall Workhouse additions and alterations (A.J. Murgatroyd, architect), 1901-1911.; Crumpsall Institution and Hospital additions and alterations (Superintendent of Works, Manchester Union), 1911-1930.; Crumpsall Institution and Hospital additions and alterations (City of Manchester Architect's Department), 1937-1947.; Miscellaneous plans, 1858-1948; Deeds 1740-1855
BEECH MOUNT MATERNITY HOME : Registers of patients, 1932-1948. [RESTRICTED ACCESS]
Crumpsall Hospital and North Manchester Hospital records dating from the 1860s-1980s have been accessioned at 2013/5. These records are not yet catalogued. Please ask staff for details.
Related Material:Records of Springfield Hospital, the former Crumpsall Institution, are at GB127.M856. Records of North Manchester General Hospital are at GB127.M854.
For a history of the hospital see Susan Hall and D.L. Perry, Crumpsall Hospital: 'The Story of a Hundred Years, 1876-1976' (Upjohn and Bottomley,1976) which is held in the Local Studies Library (ref: 362.11Ha). For a history of the workhouse see Mark Greenwood Springfield Hospital: The Human History, 1855-1995 (Manchester Health Authority, 1997), also held in the Local Studies Library (ref: 362.21Gr). See also A Short History of Delaunays Hospital, 1869-1969, by Kernal (MISC/1132).
For access to your own medical records still held at the hospital please contact the centralised Pennine Acute Hospitals Access to Health Records Team at The Royal Oldham Hospital, Rochdale Road, Oldham OL1 2JH. Te: 0161 656 1215 or 0161 778 5938.
Place:/Crumpsall/Manchester/Lancashire/England
Title:
Crumpsall Hospital and Institution
Date of work:
1855-1991
Reference number:
GB127.M326
Level of description:
Fonds
Includes:
Custodial history:
The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 transferred responsibility for the provision of poor relief from the parishes to the newly-created poor law unions which were administered by boards of guardians. One of the tasks of the guardians was to provide workhouse accommodation or 'indoor relief' to those in need; typically the old, the sick, the handicapped, children and unmarried mothers. The workhouses had sick wards or sometimes separate infirmaries and in time these became significant providers of medical care to the poor.At the beginning of the twentieth century there were strong movements towards changing the poor law. In 1913 it was decided that union workhouses should be referred to as 'poor law institutions', thus attempting to remove the stigma of the workhouse, but it was not until the Local Government Act of 1929 that the administrative structure of the Victorian poor law was dismantled. With effect from 31st March 1930, the boards of guardians were dissolved and their responsibilities transferred to the county and county borough councils. The poor law institutions were now known as 'public assistance institutions', and though some were converted for specialised purposes, most continued to function in much the same way.The surviving remnants of the poor law were brought to an end by the National Assistance Act of 1948, one of the measures which inaugurated the welfare state. Many workhouse buildings were demolished or fell into disuse, but some were converted to serve other purposes, most commonly as hospitals.In Manchester the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 created three unions: Manchester Union, Prestwich Union and Chorlton Union. The original Manchester Union workhouse was situated in New Bridge Street, but when it became apparent that larger premises were needed, a new workhouse was built in Crumpsall on a site north of Crescent Road. The new workhouse, designed by Mills and Murgatroyd, Architects and Co. of Manchester, was opened in 1855 (for plans see M326/6/1/1-27). The workhouse infirmary in New Bridge Street continued in use until it too was replaced by a new building at Crumpsall in 1876.In 1915 the three poor law unions were amalgamated into the single Manchester Union and at Crumpsall the dividing wall between Prestwich Union Workhouse and the workhouse and infirmary of the old Manchester Union was demolished. The workhouse building became known as Crumpsall Institution, later re-named Park House Institution, and continued to function as a poor law and later public assistance institution until around 1940. The infirmary building became known as Crumpsall Infirmary and the Prestwich Union Workhouse became Crumpsall Infirmary Annexe and was used mainly for incontinent and chronically-sick patients. In total Crumpsall had around two thousand hospital beds and a separate accommodation for mental cases. In 1923 a pathological laboratory was opened at Crumpsall which dealt with pathological work from all the poor law hospitals in Manchester, work previously done at the Public Health Laboratory. Crumpsall Infirmary was also a recognised centre for the treatment of venereal disease and accepted patients not only from the Manchester Union, but also from other poor law unions in Lancashire (ref: GB127.M326/3/5/1).From 1922 an auxiliary hospital for paying patients was developed in the institution building which created the anomalous situation, reported on in the Manchester Guardian, 4th July 1935, in which private patients were sharing wards with those too poor to pay for treatment. The Auxiliary Hospital, Crescent Road, as it was known, had a separate maternity ward and there is a surviving register of patients which may refer directly to this ward (ref: GB127.M326/3/3/1). The collection also includes some registers from Beech Mount Maternity Home, formerly North Manchester Maternity Home (ref: GB127.M326/7/1/1-2). It was not part of the hospital, but was a typical municipal maternity home for non-
Source:
The records were deposited in 1979 with the permission of R. Townsend, District Administrator, Manchester Area Health Authority (Teaching), North District.
Access restrictions:
Restrictions varyRegisters containing personal medical information about individuals are on restricted access for 100 years. Registers containing personal information about staff are on restricted access for 75 years. This is in accordance with Section 40 of the Freedom of Information Act.These records are subject to FOIA and can be accessed through the relevant FOIA/DP procedures.For complex enquiries we contact the trust on behalf of the member of the public.Contact: foi.trust@pat.nhs.ukUse standard DP Access Restriction Forms
Use restrictions:
Restrictions vary
Record types:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Language:
English
Record number:
7193519
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