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Brownlow Hill infirmary was a large workhouse infirmary in Liverpool, notable for its role in advancing training of nurses. The workhouse was demolished in 1931, and the site is now occupied by Liverpool's Catholic cathedral .
The infirmary has its origins in a small building on Shaw's Brow which was opened by the 11th Earl of Derby on part of the site which is now occupied by St George's Hall on 25 March 1749. [1] The second incarnation of the infirmary was designed by John Foster in the Greek Revival style and opened on Brownlow Hill in September 1824. [2]
Listed Buildings in Liverpool The University of Liverpool's Victoria Building provided the inspiration for the term Red brick university Listed buildings in Liverpool Grade I listed buildings Grade II* listed buildings City Centre Suburbs Grade II listed buildings: L1 L2 L3 L4 L5 L6 L7 L8 L9 L10 L11 L12 L13 L14 L15 L16 L17 L18 L19 L24 L25 Liverpool is a city and port in Merseyside, England ...
She later trained as a nurse at Brownlow Hill infirmary in Liverpool. [3] In 1881, she was a co-founder of Society for Promoting the Return of Women as Poor Law Guardians, [4] a fore-runner of the Society for Promoting the Return of Women as County Councillors (1888) which eventually (1893) became the Women's Local Government Society.
Agnes Elizabeth Jones (1832 – 1868) of Fahan, County Donegal, Ireland became the first trained Nursing Superintendent of Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary. She gave all her time and energy to her patients and died at the age of 35 from typhus fever. Florence Nightingale said of Agnes Elizabeth Jones, ‘She overworked as others underwork.
Blackburn Royal Infirmary; Blair Hospital; Bolsover Hospital; Bolton Royal Infirmary; Booth Hall Children's Hospital; Bootham Park Hospital; Boscombe Hospital; Brentry Hospital; Brislington House; Bristol General Hospital; Bristol Homeopathic Hospital; Broadgate Hospital; Brookwood Hospital; Brownlow Hill infirmary; Burton Road Hospital; Burton ...
The Royal British Nurses' Association was founded in December 1887 by Ethel Bedford-Fenwick, with leading matrons from voluntary, local authority and military hospitals including; Isla Stewart of St Bartholomew's Hospital, Godiva Thorold of the Middlesex Hospital, Miss Hogg of Haslar Hospital and Anne Gibson of Brownlow Hill Infirmary, Liverpool [1] [2]
The hospital was established as the Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary for the Diseases of Women and Children in Horatio Street, Scotland Road, Liverpool, in November 1841. [1] It moved to Pembroke Place in 1845 and to Myrtle Street in 1862 and, having become the Ladies Charity and Lying-In Hospital in 1869, it moved to new purpose-built ...