A short history of the rise and progress of the Manchester Royal Infirmary : from the year 1752 to 1877 / [F. Renaud].

  • Renaud, F.
Date:
1898
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A short history of the rise and progress of the Manchester Royal Infirmary : from the year 1752 to 1877 / [F. Renaud]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Infirmary at Liverpool were made in 1745, when a subscription list was opened. The house was finished in 1748, and opened for the admission of patients in 1749, and calculated to hold 100 beds. The Honorary Professional Staff consisted of three Physicians and three Surgeons. Leeds Infirmary was opened in 1771. At this June Conference a Committee of four gentlemen was nominated to collect funds, through whose exertions the sum of T300 was obtained in legacies and benefactions, together with about £500 promised as annual subscriptions. Mr. Thomas Touchet was associated with Mr. Bancroft to fix upon the site for a more permanent building, and a covenant was made with Mr. Sedgwick, a surgeon living nigh at hand, for the sale of his garden for erecting thereon a suitable Infirmary, unless a more advantageous site could be found, paying T13. 16s. for the same as annual rent. This proposal not having been considered quite suitable, and Mr. Myles Bower having consented to purchase the above land for his own private use, the Committee met again, after preliminary investigation had been made for another site at the top of Market Stead Lane, known as the ^‘Daub Hole Field,” the pro- perty of Sir Oswald Mosley, the then Lord of the Manor of Manchester, measuring one acre and
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