Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
Record types
- Administrative
- 1935 - 1974
- General
- 1964 - 1974
- Admission
- 1935 - 1948
Finding aids
- Finding aids
- Catalogue
- Location
- At Repository (AR)
- Details
- At Repository: CAT: HW1
Hospital
Hemel Hempstead General Hospital (St Pauls Wing)
Last updated .
Important information
Information about this hospital might be outdated.
Details
- Previous Names
- Hemel Hempstead Workhouse (c.1869 - c.1920)
- Hemel Hempstead Infirmary (c.1920 - 1930)
- Hemel Hempstead Institution (c.1930 - 1948)
- St Paul's Hospital (1948 - c.1970)
- Address
- Allendale, Hemel Hempstead, HP2 5HT
- Previous Locations
- Allendale formerly known as Redbourn Road
- Foundation Year
- 1869
- Status
- Open
Administrative Authorities
- Regional Board (1948-1974)
- North West Metropolitan
- Management Committee (1948-1974)
- West Hertfordshire
- Regional Authority (1974-1982)
- North West Thames
- Regional Authority (Post-1982)
- North West Thames
- District Authority (1974-1982)
- North West
- District Authority (Post-1982)
- North West Hertfordshire
- Pre-1974 County
- Hertfordshire
- Post-1974 County
- Hertfordshire
- Post-1996 County
- Not applicable
Status
- Pre-1948
- Local Authority, Poor Law
- Pre-1948 information
- PLI: 1869 - 1932.
- LA: 1932 - 1948.
- Post-1948
- NHS
Type
- Pre-1948
- General
- Post-1948
- Acute
Other information
St Paul's Hospital originally opened in 1836 as the workhouse for the Hemel Hempstead Union, which consisted of the parishes of Bovingdon, Flaunden, Great Gaddesden, Hemel Hempstead and Kings Langley (the parish of Markyate was created in 1897). The workhouse had an infirmary with 224 beds to house patients who were aged, infirm or chronically ill. The workhouse and infirmary were situated in Allendale Road in Hemel Hempstead. From April 1930 under the Local Government Act 1929, responsibility for the workhouses, including workhouse infirmaries, passed from the Boards of Guardians to the County Council's Dacorum Guardians Committee, which was responsible for the area of the former Hemel Hempstead Union plus part of the former Berkhamsted Union. The workhouse became known as Hempstead House. In May 1936 the Berkhamsted workhouse closed and Hempstead House became responsible for the poor, including the sick poor, of the entire Dacorum Guardians Committee area.