Liverpool St Mary's Cemetery ?

[gf27]

The workhouse was also used as a place for maternity duties.
My Father was born in 1925, 144a Brownlow Hill. I don't think they liked to use Workhouse on the birth cert. I am told that it was used as a training hospital around that time.
My Great Great Grandmother Mary died in Smithsdown Rd workhouse, I think it was also classed as a fever hospital. That was in 1873, so I think as time went on I think workhouses were used more like infirmaries'.

Gareth.

[dickiesam]

The workhouse was also used as a place for maternity duties.
My Father was born in 1925, 144a Brownlow Hill. I don't think they liked to use Workhouse on the birth cert. I am told that it was used as a training hospital around that time.
My Great Great Grandmother Mary died in Smithsdown Rd workhouse, I think it was also classed as a fever hospital. That was in 1873, so I think as time went on I think workhouses were used more like infirmaries'.

Gareth.

Hi Gareth,
144a Brownlow Hill was a pseudonymous-address used by the registrar and officialdom on certs to protect the 'origins' of the unfortunate. Most workhouse addresses would have been entered on birth certs etc in that pseudonymous format and it lasted into the last century. See: http://www.workhouses.org.uk/addresses/

With regard to the establishment of the infirmaries, I believe that dates from the Metropolitan Poor Act of 1867 which was aimed at removing the care of the sick from the workhouse itself and over time infirmaries were built as adjuncts or annexes to workhouses. It was an early form of the NHS so people who could not afford 'hospital' care could get treatment at an infirmary.

My paternal g.mother died at 144a Brownlow Hill in 1921.