Handbill on the projected new House of Recovery [Manchester], c 1803

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This is a report by the House of Recovery Committee about the sums required, necessity for the institution, and how it will work The first Manchester House of Recovery was opened in 1796, and was an innovative attempt to treat fever by isolating cases in a fever hospital - or house of recovery. It was established by the equally innovative Manchester Board of Health, an organisation set up by local doctors and others to institute health measures, of which the fever hospital was the most important. This handbill exhorts financial help to replace the House of Recovery with a second larger one. This was completed in 1803 with 100 beds It is not clear why this handbill is in The Retreat archive, but The Retreat may have been circulated with this request for funding

Handbill on the projected new House of Recovery [Manchester], c 1803

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