Building Name

Extensions to Workhouse Hospital and Nurses' Home

Date
1898 - 1904
District/Town
Withington, Manchester
County/Country
GMCA, England
Client
Guardians of the Chorlton Union
Work
New build

POOR-LAW HOSPITAL EXTENSION The foundation stones were laid yesterday of two new hospital pavilions and an annex to the Nurses’ Home at the workhouse of the Chorlton Union at Withington. .. Mr J B Broadbent, of Manchester, is the architect. ... The pavilions, when complete, will be practically a new infirmary, which, with the existing hospital, will accommodate some 1,600 patients. The pavilions will have 32 beds on each of three floors. The surgical ward will contain 13 beds. Altogether the number of beds provided is 205. The Nurses’ Home provides for the present and for the future requirements of the nursing staff of the workhouse infirmary, and it is to be built on the single corridor plan. There will be accommodation for 49 nurses and 10 servants, or for 55 nurses if the servants are housed elsewhere. The cost of the home is put down as £7,400 and that of the two pavilions at ,25,300. ....... Report continues with a general review of the changes which had taken place. No longer a workhouse but more a state hospital. [Manchester Guardian 15 May 1903 page 3]

Reference    Manchester Guardian 15 October 1898 Page 5 Column 6
Reference    Manchester Guardian 15 May 1903 page 3