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Sanderson Hospital

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Details

Previous Names
WJ Sanderson Home for Destitute and Crippled Children (1888 - 1929)
WJ Sanderson Home for Crippled Children (1929 - c.1935)
WJ Sanderson Orthopaedic Hospital and School for Children (c.1935 - c.1949)
Sanderson Orthopaedic Hospital (c.1950 - 1964)
WJ Sanderson Hosp
Address
Salters Road, Gosforth, NE3 4DX
Previous Locations
Whickham (1888 - 1889)
Red House, Wallsend (1889 - 1897)
Salter Road, Gosforth (1897 - ?)
North Avenue, Gosforth (by 1949 - c.1977)
Current Trust
Newcastle City Health NHS Trust (since 1997)
Foundation Year
1888
Status
Open

Administrative Authorities

Regional Board (1948-1974)
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Management Committee (1948-1974)
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Regional Authority (1974-1982)
Northern
Regional Authority (Post-1982)
Northern
District Authority (1974-1982)
Newcastle
District Authority (Post-1982)
Newcastle
Pre-1974 County
Northumberland
Post-1974 County
Tyne and Wear
Post-1996 County
Tyne and Wear

Status

Pre-1948
Voluntary
Post-1948
NHS

Type

Pre-1948
Children, Other
Pre-1948 information
OTHER: Orthopaedic surgery, and physical handicap with dietry cause for children and, increasingly, adults. School on the premises.
Post-1948
Geriatric, Other
Post-1948 information
OTHER: 1948 - 1974 Long stay orthopaedic hospital for children and adults.
GER: 1974 - ?

Other information

The hospital was founded by W J Sanderson, a Newcastle philanthropist. It was originally known as the W J Sanderson Home for Destitute and Crippled Children and was initialy begun in premises at Whickham in 1888. These buildings swiftly became too small, and the hospital moved to the Red House in Wallsend on 1 June 1889. The final move in 1897 was to Salter Road, Gosforth, when the Wallsend premises were no longer suitable. In 1914 an extension was built on to the Gosforth building so that more patients could be treated. Orignally the aim of the institution was to care for destitute children with a physical handicap who were not suitable to be housed in the workhouse. Increasingly, the hospital became known for the work done in the field of orthopaedic surgery and in the treatment of physical handicaps in children casused by dietary deficiency. In 1934 the home was designated as an Orthopaedic Hospital and the treatment of adults began there. Until the implementation of the National Health Act of 1947, the Sanderson Orthopaedic Hospital continued as an independently run instutution specialising in the care of physically handicapped children (the hospital had its own school.). After July 1948, the hospital was run by a Hospital Management committee as part of the National Health Service. It became the long-stay orthopaedic hospital for the Newcastle area, and although it continued to treat children, the ratio of adults to children was more balanced. After the reform of the NHS in 1974 the hospital was given over to the care of the elderly under the control of Newcastle Area Health Authority.

Record locations

  • Tyne and Wear Archives Service

    Record types

    Administrative
    1890 - 1973
    General
    1890 - 1973
    Finance
    1938 - 1948
    Ephemera
    1963 - 1963
    Pictorial
    1913 - 1913
    Other
    1895 - 1970

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Catalogue
    Location
    At Repository (AR)
    Ephemera - open day programme 1963
    Other: plans 1895