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Details
Previous Names
Prescot Union Institution (? - c.1930)
Whiston Infirmary (c.1930 - 1937)
County Hospital (1938 - 1953)
Address
Warrington Road, Prescot, L35 5DR
Previous Locations
Always on the same site but enlarged between Warrington Road and Dragon Lane, Prescot.
Current Trust
St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust (since 1991)
Foundation Year
1898
Status
Open
Administrative Authorities
Regional Board (1948-1974)
Liverpool
Management Committee (1948-1974)
St Helens and District
Regional Authority (1974-1982)
Mersey
Regional Authority (Post-1982)
Mersey
District Authority (1974-1982)
St Helens and Knowsley
District Authority (Post-1982)
St Helens and Knowsley
Pre-1974 County
Lancashire
Post-1974 County
Lancashire
Post-1996 County
Merseyside
Status
Pre-1948
Local Authority, Poor Law
Pre-1948 information
PLI: 1898 - c.1930 Prescot Union.
LA: c.1930 - 1948 Lancashire County Council. Took in military and civilian casualties and prisoners of war 1939-1945
Post-1948
NHS, Trust
Type
Pre-1948
General
Pre-1948 information
Workhouse Hospital until 1930
Post-1948
Acute, Mental
Post-1948 information
AC: Mainly.
MNT 1953 - 1959 (2 wards only)
Other information
Originally opened 1843 by the Board of Guardians of the Poor of Prescot. Housed the mentally ill but also developed as a Poor Law Infirmary. Lancashire County Council took it over in April 1930 and it became known as the County Hospital, Whiston: split administratively into the east side containing Maternity and Acute Wards and the west (original Workhouse Infirmary) housing mental and geriatric patients and welfare inmates. Out-patients, Casualty, X-Ray, Pathology and an Operating Theatre were added in 1937. During World War Two provision was made for military and civilian casualties and prisoners of war. After 1948 Lancashire County Council retained a section of the old institution, as Delphside, under the terms of the Welfare and National Assistance Act. In 1953 the mental wards were renamed Whiston Mental Hospital, but the general and mental hospitals were merged in 1959. Since then innumerable extensions and additional facilities have been added.