Volume: Highlands Hospital formerly the 'Metropolitan Asylums Board' Northern Convalescent Fever Hospital and South Lodge Hospital

Description

The ‘Metropolitan Asylums Board’ (MAB) was established under the 1867 Metropolitan Poor Act. The Board provided hospitals for patients who had previously been provided for by workhouses. Establishments built and run by the MAB included isolation hospitals for fevers and smallpox, ‘mental hospitals’ for people with severe learning disabilities, and tuberculosis hospitals. The Board was dissolved in 1930. The Highlands Hospital was built by the MAB and was opened as the Northern Convalescent Fever Hospital in 1887. In 1966 it merged with nearby South Lodge Hospital, which had been opened as the Enfield Isolation Hospital in 1900.

Sources: Langdondown Museum of Learning Disability, ‘The Metropolitan Asylums Board (MAB)’, Langdondown Museum website, accessed 22/11/2024.

National Archives, ‘Metropolitan Asylums Board’, National Archives website, accessed 22/11/2024.

Wikipedia, ‘Metropolitan Asylums Board’, Wikipedia website, accessed 22/11/2024.

Workhouses.org, ‘The Metropolitan Asylums Board’, Workhouses.org website, accessed 22/11/2024.

The file contains the following miniature format film prints: 148/M/31 - 37; 148/N/1 - 35.

Content

This is part of the Series: RCH01/012 Workhouses Project; within the Collection: RCH01 Royal Commission On The Historical Monuments Of England (Rchme) Archive

This Volume contains the following materials:

Photograph (Print): 42

Photograph (Print): 18

Map: 5

Measured Drawing: 9

Correspondence: 2

Correspondence: 1

File: 1

Record Sheet/Form: 17

Report: 1

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