Manchester and Salford Skin Hospital Quay Street,

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, &c, and on the first floor is the depart-ent 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 22 August 1903 page 206
Reference    RIBA Journal 14 August 1939 page 950-952