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Topic: Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary

	Florence Nightingale @ Famous.y2u.co.uk
		In December 1844, in response to a pauper's death in a workhouse infirmary in London that became a public scandal, Nightingale 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.
		By 1882 Nightingale nurses had a growing influential presence in the embryonic nursing profession, and some had become matrons at several leading hospitals, including, in London, St Mary's Hospital, Westminster Hospital, St Marylebone Workhouse Infirmary and the Hospital for Incurables at Putney; and throughout Britain, e.g.
		Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley; Edinburgh Royal Infirmary; Cumberland Infirmary; Liverpool Royal Infirmary as well as at Sydney Hospital, in New South Wales, Australia.
	famous.y2u.co.uk /F_Florence_Nightingale.htm (2205 words)

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		Liverpool Royal Lunatic Hospital, which was associated with the Royal Infirmary and
		Its main purpose was to remove lunatics from gaols and workhouses to buildings where they would be easier to manage.
		Its first superintendent (to 1818) was a house painter with experience of caring for a lunatic.
	www.mdx.ac.uk /www/study/mhhtim.htm (7534 words)

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