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he Medical institution, in Hope-street, was built by subscription, for the use of the medical faculty, at a cost of about £3,000; has a semicircular front, with a row of six Ionic pillars; and contains a good medical library for reference and circulation, a laboratory, an anatomical museum, and a lecture-room with capacity for about 350 persons.
The Apothecaries' hall, in Colquitt-street, is of recent erection, the property of a Joint-Stock company; succeeded a previous edifice injured by fire in 1845, and burnt down iu 1846, with estimated loss of £20,000; presents a beautiful stone front of striking appearance, with two bold projections, the one over the first story, the other near the top; has, on the lower projection, figures of Galen, Hippocrates, Esculapius, and Hygeia, surmounting eight kneeling bulls, an-anged in pairs; and contains a spacious hall, with a richly worked ceiling, supported by eight fluted and two plain Corinthian pillars.
The College of chemistry is in Duke-street, and trains students in the principles of chemical analysis. — The Botanic gardens are at Edge-lane, on ground purchased in 1846 for £866; occupy about eleven acres, enclosed by a substantial stone wall; contain an elegant consen^atory, 240 feet in length, and four smaller ones; and are laid out with considerable taste. — The Zoological gardens are at West Derby-road; were opened in 1833; are in a vale, engirt by an amphitheatre of sloping hills; are decorated by art, and traversed by winding walks; have appliances for amusement and recreation; and are so much the scene of sports, dramatic performances, and pyrotechnic displays, that they ought rather to be called pleasure gardens.
The Dispensary and St. Peter’s Church Source: Ramsay Muir, Bygone Liverpool.
The Royal infirmary, in Brownlow-street, at the corner of Dover-street, was built in 1824, at a cost of £27,800, exclusive of tho ground; is a very spacious edifice, both cha,ste nnd elegant; has a largo green in front, enclosed bj' a stone wall and iron rails, separating it from the street; presents a principal front of centre and wings, with six massive Ionic coliunns in the centre; is three stories high, and all of stone in the front aud in the sides; contains about twenty rooms for its committees, officers, and household; has a ward, in the left wing, for patients whose cases require immediate attention; is well arranged, throughout the second and the third stories, for the use of other patients; comsumes daily about 6,000 gallons of water, raised by a steam-engine; and is main- tiiined at an annual cost of above £5,000.
The Northern hospital, in Great Howard-street, was buUt in 1834, on ground given by the town council; succeeded a previous large building in the vicinity; is in the Tudor style, with projecting windows, lofty gables, and bold turrets; has a remarkably well-arranged and convenient interior; and admits surgery c;ise5 at all hours by day or by night.
The Southern and Toxteth hospital, in Flint-street, allbrds meilical assistance to the poor in its neighbour- hood, contains accomodation for in-door patients, and admits surgery cases at any hour of day or night. — The Lock hospital, in Ashton-stroet, was opened in 1834; is a plain brick building, only one story high; and contains accommodation for 60 patients.
The house of recovery, in Brownlow-hill, near the parochial workhouse, was opened in 1806, for the admission of poor persons suffer- ing under contagious diseases; is a large stone edifice. witth plain exterior, but commodious and convenient in- terior; and is maintained from the poor-rates.
The Lunatic asylum, on the north side of Brownlow-hill, was erected in 1830, at a cost of £11,000; is hid from the street by intercepting high walls; has a front of recessed centre and projecting mngs; contains accommodation for 60 patients; and has extensive airing grounds and otlier sanatory appliances.
The North dispensary, in Vauxhall-road, is a handsome stone building; the South dispensary, in Upper Parliament-street, is a plain building, formerly a dwelling-house; and the two act in conjunction, and assist annuaUlly about 20,000 poor persons.
The Lying-in-hospital and dispensary, in Myrtle-street, is a handsome edifice, erected in 1S62, at a cost of £5,218; succeeded a previous house in Pembroke-place; and contains accommodation for 35 patients.
There are also an ophthalmic infirmary, a dental hospital, an infirmary for children, an hospital for diseases of the chest, a house of recovery for females, an hospital at Netherfield House for infectious diseases, a dispensary for skin diseases, a homceopathic dispensary, a humane society's institution, and a ladies' charity for lying-in aid to poor married women.
Hanover Street and the Old Sailor’s Home. Source: Ramsay Muir, Bygone Liverpool.
The Sailors' Home, in Canning-place, was founded in 1846, by the late P*rince Consort, and opened near the end of 1850; was gutted by fire in 1860, and, after being restored, was reopened in 1862; is a very handsome edifice, in the Tudor style; provides lodging, board, and medical attendance, at reasonable charges, for sailors entering the port; and includes, for their use, a reading-room, a library, a savings' bank, a chapel, and a nautical school. A bazaar held at it, for its benefit, in 1851, yielded upwards of £4,000. The number of its boarders, in 1863, was 6,011; and the amount of deposits in its savings' bank, £13,444.
The Merchant Seamen's hospital, on ground belonging to the infirmary, was built in 1752, at a cost of £1,500; was intended for the support of decayed seamen of Liverpool, and of their widows and children; and is maintained partly by small contributions of all seamen sailing from the port, and partly by a large capital stock of unclaimed prize-money.
The Pemade penitentiary, in Falkner-street, was erected in 1809, for receiving and reforming penitent prostitutes. — The Home for fallen women, in Blason-street, Edge-hill, was established in result of efforts at midnight meetings to reclaim prostitutes; and has capacity for 100 inmates. — The Benevolent institution, in North-street, Toxteth Park, and the Church of England Magdalen institution, in Mount Vernon-green, also were established for re- claiming fallen women.
A suite of alms-houses, near the cemetery of St. Mary, is built in the form of three sides of a square, and has a spacious area in front. — The Licensed Victuallers' association institution and offices, a short distance E of the Necropolis, are a two-story-build- iug, of centre and wings, in the Tudor style; and Include both an asylum for the aged, and a school for the young.
The Friendly Society's offices, in Prescot-street, between London-road and Old Swan, were built in 1865, at a cost of £7,200; are in the Italian pointed style, 127 feet long, and nearly 60 feet high; and have a portico, with pillars of Aberdeen granite.
The Needlewomen's institution is in Benson-street; the Liverpool establishment for needlewomen is in Great Oxford-street; the Nurses' institution is in Soho-street; the Nurses' training-school and home is in Dover-street; the Servants' institution is in Erskine-street; and St. Elizabeth's institute for the training of destitute children for domestic services is in Breckfield-road.
The Parochial workhouse, in Brownlow-hill, was opened in 1772; is a huge edifice, said to be the largest of its kind in England; has gener- ally about 3,700 inmates; and includes a church, in which worehip is conducted according to the rites of the Church of England.
The Fatal Fire at the Liverpool Workhouse, Brownslow-Hill: Ruins of the Children’s Dormitory. Source: Illustrated London News 37 (27 October 1860): 407.
The Toxteth-Park and the West Derby or Everton workhouses serve for the parts of the borough beyond Liverpool parish; the foiiuer is in Smithdown-lane, — the latter in West Derby-road; and they had, at the census of 1861, respectively 16 and 401 inmates.
Bibliography
Muir, Ramsay, et al. Bygone Liverpool. Liverpool: Young, 1913. Internet Archive online version of a copy in the University of Toronto Library. Web. 29 September 2022.
Wilson, John M. (John Marius). The imperial gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs: general statistics: postal arrangements: railway systems, &c.; and forming a complete description of the country. 8 vols. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton, 1870.Internet Archive online version of a copy in the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Web. 17 September 2022.
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