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Generic address for hospitals

ColinB

ColinB

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I have received two IM this week regarding the generic address used by some hospitals, so I'm looking to add to the list I already have, these address are used on birth and death certificates as an alternative to the hospital name.
It has been discussed on the forum many times but it seems to be agreed that these address were used to avoid any stigma regarding a birth/death in an infirmary attached to a workhouse, and may have been the address of the Medical/Patients Records Dept.

Dudley Road Hospital, 77 & 99, Dudley Road.
Summerfield Hospital 1, Western Road.
Highcroft Hospital, 18, Union Road & 18, Highcroft Road (road name changed 1932)
Loveday Street Maternity Hospital, 28, Loveday Street.
Monyhull Hospital, 130, Monyhull Hall Road.
Selly Oak Hospital, 1,1A, 1B & 2, Raddlebarn Road.
Sorrento Maternity Hospital 15, Wake Green Road.
St. Mary's Hospice, 176, Raddlebarn Road.
John Connolly Hosp., 384, Tessell Lane
Yardley Green 153, Yardley Green Road.
Rubery Hill Hospital, 1899, Bristol Road South.
West Heath Hospital, 503, Rednal road.

Can anyone add to this list.


Colin
 
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Not quite a hospital, but 76 Glebe Road is the John Taylor Memorial Home.

It's my understanding that the 1 Western Road address is not the Dudley Road Hospital, it is the site of Summerfield Hospital, which was the geriatric hospital on the same site as Dudley Road. I have a couple of my forebears died there, and they were all quite elderly at the time.
 
Can,t see Marston Green Hospital on the list although not in B,ham i,m sure a lot of people from the Castle Brom area were born there. Dek
 
Hello Colin, There is of course Rubery Hill Hospital which is situated on the
borders of Bromsgrove and Birmingham and could be difficult to locate.The
usual reference of course is the asylum but not sure that is acceptable.
We also have West Heath Hospital but how do you identify it? West Heath
caters for mainly generatic patients. Pity we cannot come up with a way
to simplify the list to help people searching.
Betty
 
I don't know when generic addresses came in, but I have two death certificates from Rubery Hill, both say Rubery Hill Asylum, Kings Norton. Both were suffering from chronic disease, not mental health problems (one a heart condition, the other, TB), 1908 and 1911 respectively. I also have a Dudley Road Infirmary address for 1915, but all later ones seem to be 1, Western Road.
 
Hello Shortie, no wonder people have difficulties locating hospitals.
Rubery Hill is nowhere near Kings Norton is it? Most frustrating !
Betty
 
No, Betty, it's not, but Kings Norton was a large district in those days. My grandparents married in April 1914 at Kings Heath church, in the parish of Kings Norton and therefore not registered in Birmingham! Things from the past are often frustrating, that's why most of us have grey hair! Ha ha
 
Betty, the list was of the alternative addresses used on certificates not a list of hospitals, there's a list of the major hospitals in Birmingham on my site, BIRMINGHAM HOSPITALS .
I have added address's for Rubery Hill and West Heath to the list, I should have up-dated it.
Shortie, mental illness is not usually a cause of death, so patients admitted to mental hospitals usually die from the same causes as found in other hospital/home deaths.

Colin
 
Colin, I also know that mental asylums also took on patients with long term illnesses - my gt gt grandmother had a long-standing heart condition that, (according to my daughter who is a specialist cardiac nurse) may well have been a result of having rheumatic fever. This kind of disease was not usually treated in a normal infirmary, as it was long-term care. The other person (strangely, her son) was only young and no record of having mental illness has shown up at all, he had not long married and had children.
 
Was 1 Western road the address used for the Workhouse and then later Summerfield Hospital? If so what year did the address change to be the hospital address?
 
Hello Colin, Must apologise for my ignorance. The only time I heard the word generic was when
the medication they gave me made me more ill than the complaint so was not sure just what
the word means. Better get the dictionary out because using the word for addresses has confused
me more. { mind that's not difficult !!! } At least I try to be helpful.
Betty.
 
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