Devonshire hospital and Buxton Bath charity : instituted for the relief of poor persons from all parts of Great Britain and Ireland suffering from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and neuralgia ; pains, weakness or contractions of joints or limbs, arising from these diseases, or from sprains, fractures, or other local injuries ; chronic forms of paralysis ; dropped hands, and other poisonous effects of lead, mercury, or other minerals ; spinal affections ; dyspeptic complaints, uterine obstructions, etc. etc. ; supported by annual subscriptions and voluntary contributions : annual report for the year 1883 ; completion of the hospital extension ; action and purpose of the governors of the cotton districts convalescent fund ; management, history, annual statement, accounts, meteorological report and tables, rules and regulations, list of subscriptions and benefactions &c., Bath charity report for 1785, and copies of conveyances of hospital and baths from the Duke of Devonshire to the trustees.
- Devonshire Royal Hospital (Buxton, Derbyshire, England)
- Date:
- 1884
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Devonshire hospital and Buxton Bath charity : instituted for the relief of poor persons from all parts of Great Britain and Ireland suffering from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and neuralgia ; pains, weakness or contractions of joints or limbs, arising from these diseases, or from sprains, fractures, or other local injuries ; chronic forms of paralysis ; dropped hands, and other poisonous effects of lead, mercury, or other minerals ; spinal affections ; dyspeptic complaints, uterine obstructions, etc. etc. ; supported by annual subscriptions and voluntary contributions : annual report for the year 1883 ; completion of the hospital extension ; action and purpose of the governors of the cotton districts convalescent fund ; management, history, annual statement, accounts, meteorological report and tables, rules and regulations, list of subscriptions and benefactions &c., Bath charity report for 1785, and copies of conveyances of hospital and baths from the Duke of Devonshire to the trustees. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
![wall> aud roof of the stnu-turr' vrero fortunately fonml to ho in g-ood preservation; the interior was entirely removed, and re-arranp'd; the subsoil carefully taken away; and alxnit two-tliirds of the huilding occupied for tli»« purposes (»f the Hos[)ital. by a chaplain's house, a dispensary, and a ilispenser's apartments, a house iov the master and matron. kit<di»'n, day-rooms, (liiiin^'- liall. and spacious dormitories, affording separate b«»ds for l'J<> patients, in atldition to the beds provided for cas»>s of accident, and in addition to tli.« rotuns reijuired' for the servants of the establishment. During- the year 1><»J?^, a leg-al Conveyance of the buildings and trrounds of th Hospital was g-iven to tlie Trustees by the present Duke of Devonshire at the nominal rent of tive shillin^rs yearly, on the condition tliat they shall be used exclusively for the purposes of the Charitj'. ' A copy of the Conveyunco is appended at pag-e 27.) Dtiriug- the y»»ar lS72. the duties of Chaplain to the Hospital were kindly undertaken by the Vicar of Ituxton. and the Chaplain's House was converte«l to th»' general purposes of the Hosijital ; the number of be<ls for |>ati»'nts was ruis»'d to l.'>i); and In tt. !- i .,Mini. ]:,t inn affordetl to th'» ont-imtieutx. dispensary, ^Vc. During the twenty.tive years since the Hospital was opened, there have be<»n ;r».l^.'» patients und»'r treatment, of which number lin.Hir> have been treute.l beneficially ; and .{.^♦ItJ or about one.ninth of the whole, wen? not suffering from any of tho foruis of rheumatism, but wen* such coses as are ordinarily met with in hospitals. On the averag-e of the twenty-five years, the patients remained under treat- ment '2i \l days; and 31.:U9 cases of rheumatism, embracing- every conceivable variety of this obstinate disease, were thus extensively relieved by the remedial ag-eucy of the Buxton mineral waters. During th»« year l><vSl the great exti'usion works of the Hf)spital were practically completed, ami the Hospital was formally opened by the Patron, His Grace the Duke of Devonsiiire. and the (Jovernors of the Cotton Districts Ct»nvalescent Fund, on the llth of October. The accommodation for the additional number of patients under the grant of t'2t.«MM> from the Cotton Districts Convalescent Fund was obtained by the removal of the two walls which tinversed the entire circuit of th» main building, and formed the corridor communicating with the various wanls ; the whole space from the outside to the inside of the building was thus thrown open, and inner and outer windows supplied to all the wanls; the internal area was thus increased very greatly, and ample sjjace provided for wards and day- rooms to receive and accommodate the IJOU patients. But an indepen- dent means of access to all the rooms of the Hospital was rendered necessary in consequence of this arrangement, and this could only be obtained by coVMring the large area of the interior, and giving accesK to the ground floor rooms from the floor of tlie inner basement, and to the rooms of the upper floor, from a gallery above this. This arrangement has. however, not only '<uj)plied tlie means of access to all parts of the Hospital, but lias enabled all the wards to be prac- tically detached from one another, almost giving the advantage of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24768340_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
