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Hospital

St Joseph's Hospital

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Important information

Information about this hospital might be outdated.

Details

Previous Names
St Joseph's Institution for the Sick Poor (? - 1930 at the latest)
Address
Mount Street, Preston
Foundation Year
1877
Status
Closed (since 1986)

Administrative Authorities

Regional Board (1948-1974)
Manchester
Management Committee (1948-1974)
Voluntary
Regional Authority (1974-1982)
North Western
Regional Authority (Post-1982)
North Western
District Authority (1974-1982)
Independent
District Authority (Post-1982)
Independent
Pre-1974 County
Lancashire
Post-1974 County
Lancashire
Post-1996 County
Not applicable

Status

Pre-1948
Voluntary
Pre-1948 information
OTHER: Founded by a nursing order.
Post-1948
Other
Post-1948 information
OTHER: Administered by a religious order as an independent hospital.

Type

Post-1948
Acute, Geriatric

Other information

Founded in 1877 as St Joseph's Institution for the Sick Poor, attached to an orphanage which had opened in 1872. The hospital was administered by a religious order.

Record locations

  • St Joseph's Hospital

    Record types

    Administrative
    1873 - 1963
    General
    1873 - 1963
    Finance
    1879 - 1959
    Estates
    1944 - 1951
    Nursing
    1939 - 1952
    Admission
    1912 - 1953
    Clinical
    1879 - 1955

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Brief guide (BG)
    Details
    WIHM: BG: 1981 UMIST survey of the North West.
    Hospital now closed: no current information as to present whereabouts of these records.