The Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton was an acute general hospital in the All Saints inner city area of Wolverhampton.
| Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton | |
|---|---|
| Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust | |
 The Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton | |
  Location in West Midlands | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 52°34′53″N 2°07′14″W / 52.58128°N 2.12053°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public NHS |
| Type | Acute general hospital |
| History | |
| Opened | 1846 |
| Closed | 1997 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
History edit
The hospital was designed by Edward Banks in the classical style and built between 1846 and 1849 on land acquired from the Henry Vane, 2nd Duke of Cleveland.[1] It was opened as the South Staffordshire Hospital but became the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire General Hospital in the second half of the 19th century.[1] The internal layout rapidly became outdated when the pavilion system, where patients were separated by type of illness, was introduced at new hospitals in 1852.[2] Additions included a new wing for in-patients as well as a new block for out-patients in 1872, a fever ward in 1873, a medical library in 1877, an additional two-storey in-patient wing in 1912 and the vast King Edward VII Memorial Wing in 1923.[1] It was renamed the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton in December 1928.[1] A further block of in-patient wards was completed in the late 1930s.[1]
The hospital closed in June 1997 with services being transferred to New Cross Hospital; the site was acquired for retail development by Tesco in 2001, but the development stalled in January 2015[3] and the site was later sold on to the Homes and Communities Agency for residential development in March 2016.[4]
Notable staff edit
- Hannath, Henrietta, Matron (1864–1939).[5] Matron of the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton from 1906–1923.[6][5] Hannath trained at King's College Hospital, London and worked at The London Hospital under Eva Luckes as a Home Sister, and also taught Sick Cookery to the nursing staff.[6] During the First World War Hannath was posted as Matron of the 5th Northern General Hospital, Leicester, and returned to Wolverhampton in 1919.[5] Hannath received her RRC in 1917, and was awarded a bar in 1920.[7] Hannath retired as Matron in the Territorial Army Nursing Service in 1923.[8] She was a founder member of the College of Nursing, the forerunner to the Royal College of Nursing.[5]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e Fox, Neil. "The History of The Royal Hospital". History website. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
- ^ "Wolverhampton hospital that was built three years too soon". Black Country Bugle. 20 August 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
- ^ "Tesco pulls out of Wolverhampton Royal Hospital store plan". Express and Star. 8 January 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
- ^ "Wolverhampton Royal Hospital site development: Major step forward as plan for 150 homes goes in". Express and Star. 16 September 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
- ^ a b c d "Obituary, Miss Henrietta Hannath RRC". Nursing Times. 35 (1762): 145. 4 February 1939 – via Gale Primary Sources.
- ^ a b Rogers, Sarah (2022). 'A Maker of Matrons'? A study of Eva Lückes’s influence on a generation of nurse leaders:1880–1919' (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Huddersfield, April 2022)
- ^ "Honours For Nurses". The British Journal of Nursing. 65 (1701): 259. 6 November 1920 – via Gale Primary Sources.
- ^ "Resignations". The Nursing Record. 70 (1825): 191. 24 March 1923 – via Gale Primary Sources.