York University: Borthwick Institute of Historical Research
Record types
- Administrative
- 1919 - 1974
- Estates
- 1927 - 1927
- Staff
- 1919 - 1947
- Ephemera
- 1920 - 1921
- Pictorial
- 1919 - 1919
Finding aids
- Finding aids
- Catalogue
- Location
- At Repository (AR)
Hospital
Fairfield Hospital
Last updated .
Important information
Information about this hospital might be outdated.
Details
- Previous Names
- Fairfield Sanitorium (1919 - 1961)
- Address
- Shipton Road, Skelton, York, Y03 6XN
- Foundation Year
- 1919
- Status
- Closed (since 1976)
Administrative Authorities
- Regional Board (1948-1974)
- Leeds
- Management Committee (1948-1974)
- York (A) and Tadcaster
- Regional Authority (1974-1982)
- Yorkshire
- Regional Authority (Post-1982)
- Not Applicable
- District Authority (Post-1982)
- Not Applicable
- Pre-1974 County
- North Riding of Yorkshire
- Post-1974 County
- North Yorkshire
- Post-1996 County
- Not applicable
Status
- Pre-1948
- Local Authority
- Pre-1948 information
- LA: York Corporation.
- Post-1948
- NHS
Type
- Pre-1948
- Tuberculosis
- Post-1948
- Mental, Other
- Post-1948 information
- OTHER: 1948 - 1961 Tuberculosis, 1961 - 1976 All chest diseases.
- MNT: 1963 - 1989 Child psychiatric unit.
Other information
A regional child psychiatric unit opened in a former children's ward in 1963. When the main hospital closed in 1976, the unit remained open, closing in 1989. Services were transferred to Lime Trees Child, Adulescent and Family Unit, opened in 1989. A short history of the hospital to be included in forthcoming guide to hospital records at the Borthwick Institute (in progress 1999) by K Webb
Record locations
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- House Committee minutes of in archives of Fulford Hospital and City Hospital, 1954-1974, include Fairfield Hospital