Manchester and Salford Skin Hospital Quay Street,

HOSPITAL, MANCHESTER - The competition for the New Hospital, Quay-street, Manchester, has resulted as follows: First premiated design, Messrs. Thos. Worthington & Son, Brown Street, Manchester; second, Messrs. C. K. & T. C. Mayor, 41, John Dalton Street, Manchester; third, Messrs Mee & Hooley, 32, Victoria Street, Manchester. [Builder 16 May 1903 page 512] 

MANCHESTER SKIN DISEASES HOSPITAL - As announced in our last issue Messrs. Thomas Worthington & Sons, of Manchester, have been awarded the first premium in the competition for a new hospital for skin diseases for Manchester and Salford, to replace the wholly inadequate building in Quay Street. It is estimated that the new buildings will cost about £22,000, which, added to the sum of £13,000 already given for a most eligible site adjoining the existing hospital, brings the total up to £35,000. Towards this promises of donations amounting to £25,000 have been received. The demands upon the hospital accommodation are enormously increasing. At present it is only possible to accommodate six in-patients, and many people have to be included among the out-patients who ought never to leave the doors of the hospital until they are cured. The new building will provide for thirty in-patients. Messrs. Worthington’s plans are drawn with a view to a greater part of the buildings— practically a complete hospital being erected on the vacant site without interference with the hospital work, which, on their completion, can be transferred to the new quarters, the existing buildings being then demolished and the structure completed, In the new hospital all the administration rooms will be near the main entrance. The patients’ entrance will be in Byrom Street, set back in a forecourt, on each side of which a wing of the building will run out to the street line. The arrangement is a most convenient one, inasmuch as it will prevent crowds of patients gathering on the footway and street, and will make their entrance quiet and retired. It is suggested that the building should be faced with Runcorn stone and brick. Decorative features have been introduced on the Quay Street facade and at the ends of the wings facing Byrom Street, but the elevations on the Artillery Street side and facing the vacant land will be treated quite simply. The accommodation will include a set of self-contained chambers for the house surgeon, room for the matron, sitting and dining-rooms and sleeping accommodation for eight nurses, male and female wards for thirty beds, operating and anaesthetic rooms, laboratory, “light” and Rontgenray rooms, dispensary, waiting and dressing rooms for out-patients, stores, board-room, offices, and all the necessary administrative apartments. In the wards, which are all on the second floor, 1,200 cubic ft. of space has been allowed for every bed, and special care taken to secure light and the free circulation of air. The sanitary blocks are completely cut off from the wards by cross-ventilated bridges. Heating is to be carried out by means of hot air, hot water and open fires. [Builders Journal 20 May 1903 page 209]

 MANCHESTER AND SALFORD HOSPITAL FOR SKIN DISEASES - This design, by Messrs Thomas and Percy Worthington, was placed first in the competition recently held for the building. The front towards Quay-street forms the official entrance and approach to the Board- room, &c.; but all patients enter from the forecourt in Byrom-street. The second floor contains three pavilion wards for men, women, and children, with the necessary accessories, and the nurses have their home on the Quay-street front. The kitchens and servants are on the top floor. The hospital, however, deals principally with outpatients who come for consultation or for systematic electrical treatment by Finsen lamp, Rontgen rays, etc, and, therefore, the main part of the ground floor is appropriated to out- patients, and contains waiting hall for two hundred persons, with attached consultation rooms, special baths, dispensary, etc, and on the first floor is the department for electrical treatment, and large rooms for Finsen lamp and Rontgen rays, together with necessary accessory rooms and sanitary arrangements. The basement, which forms a ground floor opening into a central court approached through a sloping cartway from Quay-street, contains stores, laundry, heating apparatus, &c. and is connected to each floor by lift and direct service stair running from top to bottom of building. The building is designed to be carried out in brick and stone. [Builder 22 August 1903 page 206]

Reference    British Architect 30 January 1903 Page 73 - competition announced.
Reference    British Architect 15 May 1903 Page 347 - results
Reference    Builder 16 May 1903 page 512
Reference    Builders Journal 20 May 1903 page 209
Reference    Builder 22 August 1903 page 206
Reference    RIBA Journal 14 August 1939 page 950-952