Manchester Babies Hospital

The Manchester Babies Hospital opened on 4 August 1914.

Catherine Chisholm was instrumental in establishing the hospital. She was one of the first consultants. Initially the hospital was created as a small facility with just 12 beds, aimed at providing specialist care for the "...more effective treatment of babies and very young children suffering from diarrhea and other gastrointestinal disorders."[1] It was based on the model of the London Infants Hospital, but like the Clapham Maternity Hospital, all the doctors were female..[2]

The Duchess of York Hospital for Babies in 1953

In 1919 it moved to Cringle Hall in Burnage having previously been in Levenshulme and Chorlton-on-Medlock. It then had 50 beds; the number of patients increased from 82 in the first year to 430 in 1929. After the building of a new pavilion on the open-air principle with glass wards specially designed for the treatment of rickets in 1925 the number of cots rose to 80. In 1935 a new hospital wing with much improved surgical facilities was opened by the Duchess of York in June 1935. It was renamed the 'Duchess of York Hospital for Babies'..[3]

Until the creation of the National Health Service in 1948 the hospital was supported by the Corporation of Manchester and by voluntary contributions. It closed in 1986 and a new Duchess of York ward was then opened in Withington Hospital.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Obituary: Catherine Chisholm CBE, BA, MD Manc". The Lancet. 260: 250. 2 August 1952. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(52)91590-0.
  2. ↑ "Dr Catherine Chisholm" (PDF). Museum of Science and Industry. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2014. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "Chisholm, Catherine". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  4. ↑ Mohr, Peter D. "Dr Catherine Chisholm (1879–1952)", in: Manchester Memoirs; vol. 140 (2001–02), pp. 21–30
  5. ↑ The Book of Manchester and Salford. Manchester: George Falkner & Sons, 1929; pp. 135–36

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