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Rainhill Asylum
The Lancashire County Asylum, Rainhill was erected 1851 on Rainhill Road, Precot. It was administered by the Lancashire Asylums Board, and also had a Fever Hospital on site erected c1895.
Lancaster, Rainhill
Reference to the necessity for increasing the size of the Asylum to accommodate 1,000 patients instead of 750. This proposal was entertained by the Visitors of the Rainhill Asylum, but as an addition of any land was found impracticable, the Board have given a decided refusal, expressing at the same time an opinion that the asylum premises were already scarcely commensurate with the number of inmates.
Source: Submitted by Betty Longbottom |
The Rainhill County Lunatic Asylum opened 1 January 1851, is a stone building, and was enlarged in 1860 and again in 1886 by the erection of an annexe available for 1,000 patients, at a cost of £200,000, from designs by Mr. G. E. Grayson, architect of Liverpool.
The grounds are extensive and beautifully laid out and there is a detached chapel in which Divine service is regularly performed by the Chaplain twice on Sundays and on Wednesday evenings.
In December 1911 there were 975 men and 1015 women, a total of 1,990 patients. The Asylum is managed by a Committee of County and Borough Councils.
Asylum Staff 1913
Joseph Wiglesworth, Medical Superintendent
Ernest Frederick Reeve, Deputy Medical Superintendent
James Ernest Sutcliffe Smith, George Llewellyn Brunton, Albert Edward Evans and William Douglas Wilkins, Assistants
George Alfred Watson, Pathologist
Rev. Edward Eustus Chamberlain, Chaplain
Rev. Thomas Coverdale Unsworth, Catholic Priest
James Gornall, Clerk and Steward
Mrs Catherine E. Robinson and Miss Annie R. Mitchell, Matrons |
It was named Rainhill Hospital under the National Health Service. Rainhill Hospital was closed in 1991 following "Care in the Community".
Link to Rainhill Hospital Web Site
http://www.dwnw13400.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.htm
Page updated 19 October 2004
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Rainhill Asylum