Catalogue description Hunter's Moor Hospital (formerly St Mary Magdalene Home for Incurables), Newcastle

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Details of HO.HM
Reference: HO.HM
Title: Hunter's Moor Hospital (formerly St Mary Magdalene Home for Incurables), Newcastle
Description:

Patient's reports, list of patients

Date: 1887-1972
Related material:

See also Accession HO.HM/604, especially:

 

HO.HM/604/564 Proposed extension of Incurables Home, Moor Lodge, 1889

 

HO.HM/604/595 Opening of the Richardson Wing for Children, 1911

 

HO.HM/604/671 Official opening of extension to hospital buildings, 1972

 

HO.HM/604/636-637 Annual reports, 1921 - 1928

 

For Newcastle City Council Home for Incurables Sub Committee minutes (indexed), 1884 - 1903 see HO.HM/MD/NC/272/1-2. Later minutes are included in the Schools and Charities Committee, HO.HM/MD/NC/271/4-11.

Held by: Tyne and Wear Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Hunter's Moor Hospital

St Mary Magdalene Home for Incurables, Newcastle

Physical description: 3 volumes
Immediate source of acquisition:

Accession 3413

Subjects:
  • Health services
  • Clinical medicine
  • Nursing
  • Patients
  • Health policy
  • Diseases
  • Medical sciences
  • Preventive medicine
Administrative / biographical background:

The St Mary Magdalene Hospital Act of 1867 provided that surplus revenue or capital funds of the charity could be used to aid existing medical institutions or to establish a medical institution for the benefit of the sick poor of Newcastle upon Tyne and its vicinity. In 1884, therefore, the Corporation bought the surrender of William Hunter's lease of 5 acres of ground, with the buildings thereon for £5000 and established a Hospital for Incurables at Moor Lodge, Hunter's Road. They subsequently added more land then, in 1894, a new building was erected. A published rent roll of the estate of the Hospital of St Mary Magdalene of 1904, records that there were 58 beds at that date, with 10 more shortly to be added.

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