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Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary
Hospital in Gloucester, United Kingdom From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary was a hospital in Southgate Street, Gloucester.
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History
The hospital was originally established at a public house in Westgate Street 1755 but moved to more permanent premises, which were designed by Luke Singleton and erected in Southgate Street, as the Gloucestershire General Infirmary in 1756.[1][2] The Infirmary merged with the Gloucestershire Eye Institution in 1878[1] and, with the permission of King Edward VII, the combined facility became the Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary and Eye Institution in 1909.[2]
On the introduction of the National Health Service in 1948 it was amalgamated with the Gloucester City General Hospital.[1] Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by Duke of Edinburgh, paid a visit to the hospital during a visit to the city on 3 May 1955.[3] The hospital in Southgate Street closed to in-patients in 1975 and to out-patients in the early 1980s.[1] It was demolished in 1984 and replaced by offices known as Southgate House.[4]
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Notable staff
A number of matrons at Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary, and its predecessor hospital were trained or worked at The London Hospital under Eva Luckes.[5]
- Elizabeth Yeats (1847–1928),[6] Matron, from 1887 to 1904.[7][8][9] Yeats trained at The Nightingale School at St Thomas's Hospital, London.[10] Yeats then worked as a sister at Shadwell Infirmary and Manchester Infirmary before working at The London for six years between 1881 and 1887.[10] Yeats was also Matron of Gloucester Isolation Hospital, 'Over Hospital', Gloucestershire from November 1904 until she retired in 1905.[11][12][13] Following her death a tablet in her memory was erected in the hospital chapel by her former colleagues in 1929.[6]
- Gertrude M. Carrick (1878– ),[14] Assistant Matron from 1917 to 1919.[15][16] She trained at The London between 1903 and 1905.[5][17]
- Florence Mary Tillson (1875–1964), Matron, 1917 until about 1922.[18] She also trained at The London between 1903 and 1905.[19]
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