hospital Archives - British Society for the History of Medicine https://bshm.org.uk/tag/hospital/ Sat, 18 Jan 2025 11:15:23 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 The Royal Lancaster Infirmary Collecting Barrel  https://bshm.org.uk/the-royal-lancashire-infirmary-collecting-barrel/ https://bshm.org.uk/the-royal-lancashire-infirmary-collecting-barrel/#respond Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:07:21 +0000 https://bshm.org.uk/?p=19548 Soon after its opening in 1896, the general committee of the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI) discovered that they needed an additional £4200 for essential items. Bryan Rhodes describes an object used to raise funds. Building work on the new Lancaster Infirmary began in 1893, and by 1896 this ‘state of the art’ new hospital was […]

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