Devonshire hospital and Buxton Bath charity : instituted for the relief of poor persons from all parts of Great Britain and Ireland suffering from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and neuralgia ; pains, weakness or contractions of joints or limbs, arising from these diseases, or from sprains, fractures, or other local injuries ; chronic forms of paralysis ; dropped hands, and other poisonous effects of lead, mercury, or other minerals ; spinal affections ; dyspeptic complaints, uterine obstructions, and such disorders as may depend upon a rheumatic or gouty diathesis ; supported by annual subscriptions and voluntary contributions : annual report for the year 1894 ; medical report and statistics, management, history, annual statement, accounts, rules and regulations, list of subscriptions and benefactions &c., Bath charity report for 1785 ; copies of conveyances of hospital and baths from the seventh Duke of Devonshire to the trustees ; and meteorological report for the year 1894.

  • Devonshire Royal Hospital (Buxton, Derbyshire, England)
Date:
1895
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Credit: Devonshire hospital and Buxton Bath charity : instituted for the relief of poor persons from all parts of Great Britain and Ireland suffering from rheumatism, gout, sciatica, and neuralgia ; pains, weakness or contractions of joints or limbs, arising from these diseases, or from sprains, fractures, or other local injuries ; chronic forms of paralysis ; dropped hands, and other poisonous effects of lead, mercury, or other minerals ; spinal affections ; dyspeptic complaints, uterine obstructions, and such disorders as may depend upon a rheumatic or gouty diathesis ; supported by annual subscriptions and voluntary contributions : annual report for the year 1894 ; medical report and statistics, management, history, annual statement, accounts, rules and regulations, list of subscriptions and benefactions &c., Bath charity report for 1785 ; copies of conveyances of hospital and baths from the seventh Duke of Devonshire to the trustees ; and meteorological report for the year 1894. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    the Cotton Districts Convalescent Fund, M^as obtained by the removal of the two walls which traversed the entire circuit of the main building, and formed the corridor communicating A\dth the various wards; the whole sj)ace from the outside to the inside of the building was thus thrown open, and inner and outer Avindows supplied to all the wards; the internal area was thus increased very greatly, and ample space provided for wards and day-rooms to receive and accommodate the 300 Patients. But an independent means of access to all the rooms of the Hospital was rendered necessary in consequence of this arrangement; and this was obtained by covering the large area of the interior, and giving access to the ground floor rooms from the floor of the iinier basement, and to the rooms of the upper floor, from a gallery above this. This arrangement has, hoAvever, not only supplied the means of access to all parts of the Hospital, but has enabled all the Avards to be practically detached from one another, almost giving the adA^antages of the deservedl}^ praised pavilion principle of hospital construction ; AA'hile it has facilitated the ventilation of the Avhole building to an important degree, and inci'eased the free and ready admission of light to eA'ery part of the interior. The gallery has Avith much ingenuity been con- structed exclusively of bricks and iron, by Avhich it has been rendered entirely fireproof, giving all possible security in the event of fire. The great, covered, diy, Avarmed area of half-an-acre, canopied by the largest dome that has ever been erected, supplies very olivious and A'aluable contingentadA'antagesfor the recreation of the Patients in all cold or doubtful Aveather; adA'antages AA^hich must represent a value to the afflicted and often crippled inmates, beyond any calculation. As the Avhole of the main building is noAv devoted to the Patients of the Hospital, new buildings have been erected on the north side, for all purposes that might be desirably detached, such as kitchen and kitchen offices, laundries, engine rooms, cellars, storerooms, bedrooms for household serA^ants, separate Avards for accident cases, and rooms for the immediate isolation of any cases of infectious character that might become manifested. The extensions Avere carried out under the architectural superintendence of Mr. 11. E. Duke. The £24,000 expended from the Cotton Districts Convalescent Fund give a prior claim on the 150 additional beds to the nominees of the Fund; and these beds have been allotted to the