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Topic: Liverpool Royal Infirmary


  
  Florence Nightingale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In December 1844, in response to a pauper's death in a workhouse infirmary in London that became a public scandal, she became the leading advocate for improved medical care in the infirmaries and immediately engaged the support of Charles Villiers, then president of the Poor Law Board.
The report of the Royal Commission led to a major overhaul of army military care, and to the establishment of an Army Medical School and of a comprehensive system of army medical records.
Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley; Edinburgh Royal Infirmary; Cumberland Infirmary; Liverpool Royal Infirmary as well as at Sydney Hospital, in New South Wales, Australia.
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 A Brief History of Liverpool
Liverpool was growing at this time but it still had a population of only 2,000 in 1600.
Liverpool began to grow rapidly in the late 17th century with the growth of English colonies in North America and the West Indies.
Liverpool grew to be the third largest port in the country behind London and Bristol.
www.localhistories.org /liverpool.html   (2378 words)

  
 A Guide to Liverpool   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Liverpool is situated along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary, with the city centre located about 5 miles inland from the Irish Sea.
Liverpool was also home to a large Welsh population and was sometimes referred to as the Capital of North Wales.
Liverpool are historically the more successful of the two, having won 18 league titles, the European Cup five times and the FA Cup six times.
www.liverpool-guide.co.uk   (1895 words)

  
 HOSPITALS
Liverpool Royal Infirmary was built in the late 1870s to the design of Alfred Waterhouse, the Liverpool born architect.
The Royal Hospital at Haslar, Gosport, was opened for patients in 1753 and is still meeting the health needs of naval personnel.
The Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley, near Southampton, was once the country's largest military hospital.
homepage.eircom.net /~lawe/HOSPITAL.htm   (268 words)

  
 Robert Tressell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was born in Dublin, Ireland, the illegitimate son of a senior member of the Royal Irish Constabulary, Samuel Croker, and was christened as Robert Croker in the Roman Catholic Church.
His father was not a Catholic, and besides, he had his own family, children and wife, although before he died in 1875 he attempted to provide for Robert.
However, he only got as far as Liverpool, where he was admitted to the Royal Liverpool Infirmary Workhouse, where he died of phthisis pulmonalis – a wasting away of the lungs - on 3 February 1911.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Tressell   (1020 words)

  
 University of Liverpool
Joseph Everett Dutton was born in Bebington, Cheshire, in 1879.
The fifth son of a pharmacist, he was educated at the King's School, Cheshire, entered the Liverpool Medical School and the Liverpool Royal Infirmary from where he graduated with honours in 1897.
In the same year he was appointed to the George Holt fellowship in Pathology and subsequently became resident at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary where he was house-surgeon and later house-physician.
sca.lib.liv.ac.uk /collections/colldescs/lstm/dutton.htm   (389 words)

  
 History of Liverpool Psychiatry
The 19th Century saw the use of county asylums, the central Liverpool hospitals and the workhouse as the main providers of psychiatric care.
For most of the 20th century, the Liverpool Royal Infirmary was the main acute hospital in Liverpool with a casualty.
Of the clinical base in the Royal only liaison psychiatry remained in 2000; this was in a perilous and small eyrie on the tenth floor.
www.priory.com /homol/livpsy/history.htm   (269 words)

  
 Evans Family History
Born circa 1878 at Liverpool, Lancashire and died before 1949 as he was not mentioned along with his sisters Gaynor and Sall in their father, Thomas’ death notice.
Edith was born 19.9.1896 at Liverpool and died 23.1.1982 at Liverpool.
Born circa 1882 at Liverpool, Lancashire and died before 1949 as she was not mentioned along with her sisters Gaynor and Sall in their father Thomas’ death notice.
www.pnc.com.au /~hobbs/Evans.html   (1507 words)

  
 Century by Century
Liverpool, as a royal borough, sent representatives to the national Parliament.
Liverpool men were attempting to control salt supplies from Cheshire rather have to rely on supplies from Breton.
Liverpool won the Football League, Everton won the FA Cup, an historic double that was to be repeated in 1966.
www.lmu.livjm.ac.uk /lhol/content.aspx?itemid=347   (4161 words)

  
 Guardian | Richard McConnell
Richard McConnell, who has died in his native city of Liverpool aged 83, was a consultant physician of international reputation, and a pioneer in genetics and gastroenterology.
After returning to Liverpool, McConnell began work as a house officer at the David Lewis Northern hospital, gaining his MD in 1955.
He was appointed consultant physician to the Stanley hospital, Bootle, and, later, the Liverpool Royal infirmary and Broadgreen hospital.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4797122-103684,00.html   (346 words)

  
 Liverpool Record Office - Hospital Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Liverpool Record Office and Merseyside Record Office holds a substantial amount of hospital records although the type and quantity of records held for each hospital varies.
Liverpool had a number of workhouses such as Toxteth Park, Mill Road and Belmont, run by Poor Law unions, which were public bodies, to care for the destitute.
Because some of Liverpool's hospitals started life as workhouses and the changeover from workhouse to hospital was a gradual one, researchers should be aware that some of the hospital collections contain records of people who were admitted as workhouse inmates rather than hospital patients.
archive.liverpool.gov.uk /leaflets/hospital.html   (2075 words)

  
 Society | 2,000 patients face hepatitis scare
The infected doctor, who worked in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Royal Cornwall hospital, the Blackburn Royal infirmary, the Royal Liverpool hospital and the Birmingham Women's healthcare NHS trust, among others, did not know they had the virus.
London hospitals at the centre of the alert are Northwick Park, the Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's, West Middlesex and North Middlesex.
Scottish hospitals involved are the Royal Alexandra, in Paisley, and Forth Park and Victoria, both in Kirkcaldy.
society.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5174496-105965,00.html   (389 words)

  
 Liverpool City Council outer zones
It is also home to the Royal Liverpool Teaching Hospital, whilst the former Royal Infirmary has been refurbished to provide teaching and research facilities for the Health Authority and Universities;
To the south, this zone is dominated by the University of Liverpool - which itself is currently undergoing a massive expansion of its facilities.
Liverpool is one of the country's most popular choices of destination for students in the country, its popularity growing faster than Oxford and Cambridge as applications to study rose 12% between 2003 and 2004, with 28,232 applying for courses commencing in September 2004.
www.liverpool.gov.uk /The_City/City_centre/Outer_zones   (248 words)

  
 Liverpool Royal Infirmary
When the Infirmary closed its doors on the 17th December 1978, a special period in the history of hospital care in Liverpool ended.
The University of Liverpool took over the building and began turning it into teaching space for the New Curriculum of the medical school, adapting ward sin to sklills laboratoris and such like.
At the formation of the NHS in 1948 the clinic was taken over by the Liverpool Regional Board and it moved to new premises in Croxteth Road and eventually became the first psychiatric day hospital in the region.
www.priory.com /homol/livpsy/Royal.htm   (547 words)

  
 Alan Horace Rowson -- Rowson and Davidson 325 (7367): 780 Data Supplement - Longer version -- BMJ
An attraction to the sea led to initial house jobs in Liverpool, after which he was conscripted into the Royal Army Medical Corps.
After demobilisation he returned to Liverpool via Jersey and Coventry and began training in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary and Walton Hospitals.
He subsequently changed to pathology and, after completing his training in Liverpool, he was appointed as consultant pathologist in Ormskirk, where he worked until his retirement.
bmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/325/7367/780/b/DC1   (289 words)

  
 Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry NEWS RELEASES
The Laming Inquiry and the Royal Liverpool Children’s Inquiry both needed equipment which would otherwise have to be provided by the Department of Health.
Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry Chairman Professor Ian Kennedy said: "We needed equipment ourselves when we began our work and it has always been our intention to see if the NHS could use it when we no longer needed it.
The Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry team held its preliminary hearing in October 1998.
www.bristol-inquiry.org.uk /about/news_releases/newapr2000.htm   (503 words)

  
 Brownlow Group Practice: Home page
The practice was first established at the Student Health Centre on 1st August 1994 with the support of the Liverpool Health Authority and the University of Liverpool.
The old Royal Infirmary was originally opened in September 1824 to serve the residents of Liverpool.
The infirmary was closed and replaced by the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in the 1970's.
www.brownlowgrouppractice.org   (309 words)

  
 The Royal Infirmary, Chester
The Infirmary was founded as a charitable institution in 1755 when it was housed in the upper part of the Bluecoat School, outside the Northgate and the first patient was one William Thompson of St. Mary's Parish, who was admitted with a wounded hand on November 11th, 1755.
When, in September 1780, the Infirmary published its accounts, it became clear that the sums contributed were woefully inadequate to maintain the standard of service they wished to deliver.
Below is a fascinating view of the infirmary and the walls near it as they appeared around the middle of the 19th century.
www.bwpics.co.uk /infirmary.html   (2933 words)

  
 Liverpool Conferences Venues UK | Conference Venues in Liverpool
The recently refurbished Holiday Inn Liverpool City Centre is a great place for conferences and meetings and is ideally located in central Liverpool, opposite Lime Street Mainline Train Station, and i...
The Liverpool Marriott Hotel, City Centre is a vibrant, fashionable venue for business and leisure, situated in the new central Liverpool development of Queen Square.
Thistle Liverpool is located on Liverpool's famous waterfront and is adjacent to the Liver Buildings and close to the Albert Docks and city centre.
www.conferences-uk.org.uk /Liverpool.asp   (1301 words)

  
 Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry WHO'S WHO
He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and a Member of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine.
Rebecca Howard is the Executive Director of Nursing at the Royal Liverpool Children's NHS Trust.
She is the academic adviser to the research secretariat of the Lord Chancellor's Department and a former member of the Lord Chancellor's Legal Aid Advisory Committee.
www.bristol-inquiry.org.uk /about/whos_who   (425 words)

  
 AIM25: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists: Gynaecological Visiting Society
It was the inspiration of William Blair-Bell, Assistant Physician at Liverpool Royal Infirmary.
Originally the boxes were kept at The Royal Society of Medicine, in the custody of its Council, under the strict understanding they should not be viewed by anyone other than a member of the GVS.
The records were consequently moved to the Royal College of Obstetricians, where the access restrictions were honoured.
www.aim25.ac.uk /cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=2360&inst_id=7   (735 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Birthday honours - Profession salutes medical knight fully deserving of his reward
He started his medical career in 1965 as a house surgeon at the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool, and became a registrar in general surgery at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary in 1968.
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh is the oldest medical incorporation in the world and it celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2005-06.
Jim Foster is the chief executive of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=423&id=686272003   (848 words)

  
 Family History Pages: Pedder
While he was still young, the family moved to Liverpool, to live at 31 West Street, and later 14 Hardwick Square, both in the West Derby district (the site of both these streets is now occupied by the Royal Liverpool Hospital).
The family were living at 30 Greenside, in the Everton district of Liverpool, in 1871, but by 1873 they had moved to 102 Sutton Street, Tue Brook, and George continued to work as a coach builder.
This was an endowed school founded by Julia Ripley, the widow of a Liverpool merchant, for the education of orphans and fatherless children from Liverpool and Lancaster.
home.clara.net /johndarm/family_history/pedder.html   (1721 words)

  
 Audrey's Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
I am 61 years of age, having been born on 1st October 1942 at Blackburn Royal Infirmary.
At 3 years old I was thought to have a hernia, but it was discovered in 1947 that I had testes instead of ovaries and a penis in the right hand side of my abdomen.
That operation was done by Professor Jeffcoates at Liverpool Royal Infirmary in 1960.
www.medhelp.org /ais/stories/audrey.htm   (343 words)

  
 How to find us - Foresight Centre
There are three parking areas available within the University of Liverpool campus dedicated to the Foresight Centre - Car Park area A, B, C indicated by green directional signs - you may park in any of these areas.
Foresight Centre (Former Royal Infirmary Hospital) entrance is No.1 the first entrance on the left.
The Foresight Centre is a large red brick building (former Liverpool Royal Infirmary).
www.foresightcentre.co.uk /location.html   (924 words)

  
 Mark Phythian Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Mark started at Amazon Studios in the mid eighties but was dismissed shortly after for both lewd behaviour and inappropriate propositions to both male and female staff.
After leaving Strangeways in 1988 he obtained casual work in the docks area of Liverpool, his small stall becoming well known within the leather and denim retail trade.
In 1991, following an overdose of amyl nitrate along with emergency rectal surgery, he was admitted to the psychiatric wing of Liverpool's Royal Infirmary.
freespace.virgin.net /d.supple/mark-phythian.htm   (524 words)

  
 AIM25: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists: BELL, William Blair- (1871-1936): papers deposited by the ...
In 1905 he left general practice in Wallasey and was appointed to the post of Assistant Consultant Gynaecologist to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary.
Blair-Bell was President of the Obstetric Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the North of England Gynaecological Society and the Liverpool Medical Institution.
He was appointed to the staff of the Women's Hospital, Liverpool, the Liverpool Maternity Hospital and the Royal Southern Hospital.
www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/7/2343.htm   (776 words)

  
 Birds and All Nature: Armadillo as a Pet & African Folk Lore
NURSE MCCULLY of the Royal infirmary, Liverpool, has an Armadillo as a pet.
This little animal, which is a native of South America, was given to the nurse by a sailor when it was quite a baby, weighing only three pounds.
It has now been at the Royal infirmary for about four years.
www.birdnature.com /jul1898/lore.html   (297 words)

  
 Grandparents and great-grandparents
A house painter, christened on 8th April 1834 at St Peter's Church, Liverpool; died 18th July 1879 at the Royal Infirmary, Liverpool.
Born 29th July 1832 in Childwall, Liverpool; died in 1902 at 68 Rathbone Road, Wavertree, Liverpool.
A carter, born 30th September 1858 at Lance Lane, Wavertree, Liverpool; died in 1930 at Wavertree, Liverpool.
homepage.ntlworld.com /john.stephenson4/page1.html   (801 words)

  
 spiked-health | Article | The rise and rise of parents' groups
John O'Hare from Pity II Parents Support Group (Parents who have Interred Their Young Twice) in Liverpool (2) called for new legal regulation of the medical profession: 'Guidelines are not enough.
Both BHCAG in Bristol and Pity II in Liverpool spent substantial time over a number of years working with the official inquiries - contributing evidence and discussing the problems and situation of organ retention and child heart surgery in the NHS.
Their views and understanding of their particular experience are likely to have developed during their regular meetings with the government-appointed committees at Bristol and Liverpool over this extensive period.
www.spiked-online.com /Articles/00000002D1F6.htm   (1857 words)

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