Catalogue description Ormskirk and District General Hospital

This record is held by Lancashire Archives

Details of HROR
Reference: HROR
Title: Ormskirk and District General Hospital
Date: 1838 -c1970
Arrangement:

HROR/1 Reports

 

HROR/2 Registers

 

HROR/3 Miscellaneous
Related material:

For records of Ormskirk Joint Hospital Board see HRO. For records of Ormskirk Board of Guardians see PUS.
Held by: Lancashire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Ormskirk and District General Hospital
Physical description: 9 files and volumes
Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by the Cumbria and Lancashire Health Authority, 1 May 2002 (acc. 9203)
Subjects:
  • Ormskirk, Lancashire
  • Health services
Administrative / biographical background:

This hospital developed from Ormskirk Workhouse. Two workhouses were in fact established in Ormskirk in the 1730s, in Aughton Street and Moor Street. The former was sold and the institutions combined in the Moor Street premises around 1838-39. A new workhouse was built in 1853 on what is now the site of Ormskirk Hospital, in Wigan Road.

 

Known in the 1930s as the County Hospital and Institution, in the 1950s as Ormskirk County Hospital, it is now Ormskirk and District General Hospital.

 

Administered by the Guardians' Committee until absorbed into the NHS in 1948, the hospital then came under the aegis of the Ormskirk and District Hospital Management Committee, subsequently the Ormskirk Health District of the Lancashire Area Health Authority, and later the West Lancashire Health Authority.
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