There was also the county mental hospital, St Mary’s, at Burghill, first opened in 1871 and a ‘mentally deficiency’ institution at Holme Lacy House that opened in the 1930s. In the rest of the county there were a few workhouses, cottage hospitals and small rural isolation hospitals that...
Brechin Infirmary opened as a general voluntary hospital in 1869, but the sick poor in the city had earlier been served by a dispensary, established in about 1824 following a bequest of £50 from a Mrs Speid of Ardovie. The dispensary supplied medicine and medical attendance to the poor ...
Barncoose Hospital originated in the workhouse built for Redruth Union in 1838, designed by Scott and Moffatt for 450 inmates. The workhouses at Liskeard, Penzance, St Austell and St Columb Major were similarly built to designs by Scott and Moffatt. Redruth Union Workhouse, from the OS Map ...
Tattingstone Hospital in 1990 ©CopyrightClint Mannand licensed for reuse under thisCreative Commons LicenceOriginally built as a House of Industry in 1766, and later extended as Samford Workhouse, it became St Mary’s Hospital in 1930, finally closing in 1991 and was converted into housing arou...
‘Two hospitals, at Redruth and St Austell, and been established with the needs of accident-prone miners in mind, but the buildings told us nothing about these needs.’ ‘Cornwall has a large number of ports, and had a corresponding number of Port Sanitary Authorities in the late 19th cent...