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Details
Address
Holmwood Drive, Barnston
Foundation Year
1921
Status
Closed (since 1979)
Administrative Authorities
Regional Board (1948-1974)
Liverpool
Management Committee (1948-1974)
Birkenhead
Regional Authority (1974-1982)
Mersey
Regional Authority (Post-1982)
Not Applicable
District Authority (1974-1982)
Northern
District Authority (Post-1982)
Not Applicable
Pre-1974 County
Cheshire
Post-1974 County
Merseyside
Post-1996 County
Not applicable
Status
Pre-1948
Local Authority
Post-1948
NHS
Type
Pre-1948
Children, Women
Post-1948
Other
Post-1948 information
OTHER: Children.
Other information
Planned by Birkenhead County Borough Council as a small-pox hospital, but opened in 1921 as a T.B. sanatorium. It specialised in orthopaedics, treating children suffering from non-pulmonary tuberculosis; and, in the early 1950s, long-stay child patients with psychosomatic conditions, or short stay child patients with mental and physical handicaps. Rebuilt in 1982 as a private hospital called Murrayfield.