Infectious Diseases Hospital, Fall Birch Lane, Horwich

TO CONTRACTORS' AND BUILDERS - The Horwich. Westhoughton and Blackrod Hospital Committee are prepared to receive the names of Builders desirous of TENDERING fer the whole of the works required in the erection of an Infectious Diseases Hospital in Fall Birch Lane. Horwich, according to drawings and specifications and bills of quantities prepared by Messrs Cressey and Keighley, architects, Morecambe. Sole tenders only will be received but sub-contractors for complete trades are provisionally sanctioned. Applications to be sent to the undersigned at 117 Market Street, Westhoughton, Bolton, before 25 November, after which date bills of quantities and particulars for tendering will be issued to Contractors on deposit of £5, which will be returned only on receipt of bona fide tender. THOMAS PARTINGTON (Clerk to the Committee). [Wigan Examiner Saturday 26 October 1901 page 1]

FALL BIRCH HOSPITAL - The Infectious Diseases Hospital which has been erected at Fall Birch, Horwich. by the Horwich, Westhoughton and Blackrod Joint Hospital Committee looked at its best yesterday afternoon on the occasion of the public opening.   It is pleasantly situated on a hillside where it catches a good deal of sunlight and of the health-giving breezes which blow across the hills and has a southerly aspect. The hospital consists of five buildings - an administrative block. laundry and disinfecting block, and three ward blocks. The wards are for the treatment of scarlet fever, typhoid fever, and diphtheria, and have accommodation for 46 patients. including 16 children. The buildings are of Fletcher's local brick. with local stone facings, treated with cement rough casting.  The architects were Messrs Cressey and Keighley (Horwich and Morecambe) and the general contractor has been Mr. W. J. Slater (Horwich). Dr. Whitaker (Horwich) will be the medical officer and Miss Hughes the matron. [Bolton Evening News Friday 10 March 1905 page 5]

Opened        9 March 1905 by John Unsworth

Reference    Wigan Examiner Saturday 26 October 1901 page 1
Reference    Bolton Evening News Friday 10 March 1905 page 5