Catalogue description WALLASEY HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, Claremount Road

This record is held by Wirral Archives

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Title: WALLASEY HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, Claremount Road
Description:

Administrative records, registers, report books, photographs
Date: 1867 - 1984
Held by: Wirral Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Wallasey Hospital for Women, Claremount Road, Merseyside
Physical description: 4 series
Immediate source of acquisition:

The deposited records have come from various sources within the Health Authority; the majority from the administrator of Victoria Central Hospital. The first deposit was received in Sep. 1979; the most recent in 1984. Accns. 712, 801, 1044, 1049, 1056 and 1091
Subjects:
  • Wallasey, Merseyside
  • Wallasey, Cheshire
Administrative / biographical background:

Founded in 1866 as the Wallasey Cottage Hospital. Originally situated in St. George's Road; moved to new premises in Claremount Road in 1885. Supported by voluntary subscriptions until 1948, when it came under the control of the North Wirral Hospital Management Committee. In 1952 the hospital became a specialised gynaecology unit and was given its later title. It came under the control of the Wirral (Area) Health Authority in 1974, and was closed in Aug. 1980.
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