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50: 34: 57: 211:(completed in 1780), four houses to form a hospital for casual paupers (1786), a lunatic asylum (1787), and a fever ward (1801). By the 1790s, the workhouse accommodated over 1000 people, and further extensions were added in 1792 and 1796. A report in 1805 by churchwarden Henderson revealed that of 1600 paupers housed in the workhouse and nearby 243:, to be the first trained Nursing Superintendent in 1865. The conditions in the infirmary when she arrived were described as "disorder, extravagance of every description in the establishment to an incredible degree". Soon after she arrived, Jones brought 12 trained nurses and seven probationers (all trained at the 260:
The need for the workhouse and its hospital gradually reduced during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with the institution closing in the late 1920s and the site being put up for sale in 1930. Acquired by the Roman Catholic church, the workhouse was demolished in 1931 and the site is today
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in London) to the infirmary. This initial group were supplemented by further probationers and 54 able-bodied female inmates who were paid a small salary. This was the first training for nurses in any workhouse infirmary, paving the way for nurse training systems in other workhouses across the UK;
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Initial construction of the workhouse was completed in May 1772. It was extended by addition of six further houses to both the southeast and southwest wings in 1777, a public
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obtained permission from the Liverpool Vestry to introduce trained nurses (at his own expense for three years) at the workhouse hospital in 1864, and invited
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Royden, Mike (2000) ‘The Nineteenth century Poor Law in Liverpool and its Hinterland: Towards the Origins of the Workhouse Infirmary’,
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The workhouse also housed one of the largest infirmaries in the country. It catered for 1200 sick paupers. Liverpool philanthropist
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Brownlow Hill infirmary is located in Merseyside
Liverpool
Coordinates
53°24′18″N 2°58′08″W / 53.405°N 2.969°W / 53.405; -2.969
Type
Hospitals in England
workhouse
Liverpool
nurses
Liverpool's Catholic cathedral
dispensary
almshouses
Henry Lockwood
Thomas Allom
William Rathbone
Agnes Jones
London Great Northern Hospital
Nightingale School of Nursing
Eva McLaren
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral







"The Liverpool Brownlow Hill Institution"
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