Building Name

Hope Hospital – Additional Beds for the treatment of consumption

Date
1912
Street
Eccles Old Road
District/Town
Hope, Salford
County/Country
GMCA, England
Client
Guardians of the Poor, Salford Union
Work
New build

CONSUMPTION TREATMENT. SALFORD GUARDIANS WILL PROVIDE EIGHTY BEDS. - Details of the proposed provision for consumptive patients at the Hospital belonging to the Salford Poor Law Union were submitted yesterday at the meeting of the Guardians. The General Purposes Committee suggested that open-air accommodation should be afforded on the grounds in front of the institution by the erection of a building for the more advanced cases; that a building should be erected bf the most improved type with a lower storey for incipient cases and an upper storey for the more advanced cases,  and that, as an experiment, provision should be made for eighty beds. It was estimated that the cost would be between £2,000 and £3,000. The additional nursing staff would mean an annual cost of £534, and further £750 would be involved by the Scheme recommended by Dr Austin, medical superintendent at Hope Infirmary.   A building committee was appointed, the Board approving the scheme, and Mr. W. R. Sharp, architect, of King-street, Manchester, was selected to make the plans for the extension. [Manchester Guardian 27 January 1912 page 5]

Reference           Manchester Guardian 27 January 1912 page 5