Lancashire Record Office
Record types
- Administrative
- 1809 - 1837
- General
- 1809 - 1837
- Finance
- 1809 - 1820
- Staff
- 1810 - 1829
- Ephemera
- 1810 - 1830
Finding aids
- Location
- At Repository (AR), National Register of Archives (NRA)
- Details
- HPRD
Hospital
Preston Dispensary and House of Recovery
Last updated .
Important information
Information about this hospital might be outdated.
Details
- Previous Names
- Preston Dispensary
- Address
- Fulwood, Preston
- Previous Locations
- Evernton Gardens, 1809-1811
- Lune Street - Fox Street - Surgeons Lane 1811-1831
- Foundation Year
- 1809
- Status
- Closed (since 1869)
Administrative Authorities
- Pre-1974 County
- Lancashire
- Post-1974 County
- Lancashire
Status
- Pre-1948
- Poor Law, Voluntary
- Pre-1948 information
- Charitable institution, erected by public susbscription, also supported by the Preston Overseers
Type
- Pre-1948
- General, Isolation, Maternity
- Pre-1948 information
- Dispensary - GEN, MAT 1809-1869
- House of Recovery - ISOL 1813-1869
Other information
Provided medicines and other sick relief to the poor of Preston and surrounding districts, and a midwifery service funded by the Lying- In and Ladies Charities. House of Recovery for infectious/contagious diseases opened as an extension in 1913.