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Details: Chester City Hospital, Chester

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Name

  

Present name

Chester City Hospital 

Previous name(s)

Chester Poor Law Union Workhouse (1877 - 1930)
St James' Hospital (1930 - c.1936)  

Address

Hoole Lane Chester CH2 3EN 

Previous location


Foundation Year

1877 

Closed

Yes 

Administrative authorities

Regional Hospital Board (1948-74)

Liverpool 

Hospital Management Committee (1948-74)

Chester and District 

Regional Health Authority (1974-82)

Mersey 

Regional Health Authority (1982- )

Mersey 

District Health Authority (1974-82)

Chester 

District Health Authority (1982- )

Chester 

County (before 1974)

Cheshire 

County (1974-1996)

Cheshire 

County (after 1996)

Not applicable 

Status

Pre 1948

Poor Law, Local Authority

Post 1948

NHS

Type

Pre 1948

General

Post 1948

Geriatric

 

Records can be found at:

Chester Archives

Record type

Date range

Administrative

1866 - 1971

   Admission & Discharge

1924 - 1968

   Other

1866 - 1971

Finding aids

Finding aids

Catalogue

Location of finding aids

At Repository(AR), National Register of Archives (NRA)

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