BOOTH HALL HOSPITAL

CONTENTS

M302/1/1-5 ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS

M302/1/1 Admission registers, 1938-1955.

M302/1/2 Summary of admissions, 1956-1966.

M302/1/3 Creed registers, 1909-1945.

M302/1/4 Mortuary register, 1942-1948.

M302/1/5 Receipt and Refund ledger, 1927-1930.

M302/2/1-3 MEDICAL REGISTERS [RESTRICTED ISSUE]

M302/2/1 Operation registers, 1909-1956.

M302/2/2 Post Mortem books, 1926-1947.

M302/2/3 Dental Patients register, 1939-1944.

• <corpname>Booth Hall Hospital, Blackley, c1800 - 1948</corpname>
• <corpname>Manchester Babies and Children Hospital Management Committee, 1948-</corpname>

Records containing personal medical information about individuals are subject to one hundred years closure (ref: M302/2/1-3).

The following records were deposited by Booth Hall Hospital in 1978.

Booth Hall in Blackley was built during the early seventeenth century by Humphrey Booth, a Salford man noted for his philanthropy. The original hall building was demolished in 1907 and the site, off Charlestown Road, was acquired by Prestwich Poor Law Union for the construction of a new general-purpose infirmary.

On the amalgamation of the Manchester, Chorlton and Prestwich Unions in 1915, which created the single Manchester Poor Law Union, the Prestwich infirmary was designated a children's hospital. As such it became part of the Union's services for the care of children, alongside Styal Cottage Homes, designed to remove children from the workhouse environment, Swinton Home and Schools for the 'mentally defective', and Dr Rhodes Memorial Home, a reception home for healthy children.

Booth Hall continued to expand as a children's hospital through the major local government reorganisations: the Local Government Act of 1929 which dismantled the poor law unions; the creation of the National Health Service in 1948. Under the NHS, Booth Hall was united with Monsall Hospital and the Duchess of York Babies Hospital to form the Manchester Babies and Children Hospital Management Committee. One of the Committee's initial concerns was to halt the admission of healthy children to the hospital; that is abandoned infants awaiting adoption; also older children who had been evacuated from London during the war and had noone or nowhere to return to.