Oldham Royal Infirmary

Oldham Royal Infirmary

Oldham Royal Infirmary

Founded in 1872 as a Voluntary Hospital situated on Union Street West. It was closed in 1989.

Proposed Infirmary for Oldham
At a meeting recently held for the purpose of considering the propriety of erecting an infirmary at Oldham, with the £1,000 granted from the Lancashire Relief Fund, a committee was appointed to make the necessary inquiries and report. A meeting has just been held at the Town Hall for the purpose of considering the report and taking proceedings thereon.

The report recommended :-

First, a dispensary with the necessary apartments and offices for the resident staff and servants, and if possible, two or three rooms for special cases where quiet and isolation were necessary;

Second, an infirmary containing separate rooms for male and female patients, arranged so as to afford about 1,500 cubic feet of air to each bed, of which it was proposed to begin with 20.

The committee were of the opinion that the proposed buildings would cost at least £6,000.; and in addition to this, £4,000 should be added for the purchase of the site, furniture etc, and they therefore recommended that a sum of £10,000 be raised. The entire amount subscribed by the meeting was £2,655.
Source: The Builder 1868 Vol XXVI 31st October 1868 p809
Submitted by Alan Longbottom

New Infirmary for Oldham
The Mansion-house committee, out of the surplus fund, subscribed some years ago for the relief of the operatives during the cotton famine, have apportioned to Oldham, under an Order in Chancery, £1,000 towards the erection of a new infirmary, to cost £10,000 at that place, which hitherto has possessed no medical institution of its own, though its inhabitants number 90,000.

Note this is the London, Mansion House Committee.]
Source: The Builder 1868 Vol XXVI 5th December 1868 p901
Submitted by Alan Longbottom

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