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CHESTER BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION AND CHESTER DISTRICT NURSING ASSOCIATION
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This record is about the CHESTER BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION AND CHESTER DISTRICT NURSING ASSOCIATION dating from 1897-1948.
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- DNA
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Title (The name of the record)
- CHESTER BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION AND CHESTER DISTRICT NURSING ASSOCIATION
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1897-1948
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Description (What the record is about)
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Annual reports, and statements of accounts, bank books
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 107 Files
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EXCEPT D/DNA/96,97,99,100 AVAILABLE
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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These records were deposited in the Chester City Record Office on 8 February 1960 by Miss Greenwood, Superintendent of the Chester and District Nursing Service.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Chester Benevolent Institution was a charity founded in 1798 to provide a midwifery service for poor married women in their own homes. The Institution moved into a home in Grosvenor Street given by the Duke of Westminster in 1899 and in 1904 was approved as a training school for midwives.
A general home nursing service, known as The Deaconesses' Institution began in the 1870s and became the Chester District Nursing Association in 1900 to nurse the sick poor in their own homes. The Association was based at 9 Water Tower Street until 1925 when the Benevolent Institution and the District Nursing Association amalgamated to form Chester Maternity Hospital and District Nursing Association and opened a maternity hospital at 16 Whitefriars.
The maternity hospital closed in October 1938 because ample provision for maternity cases had become available at the City Hospital and the building was sold to Chester Rural District Council. However, general nursing by the Association continued from the Nurses' Home at 7 Grosvenor Street until July 1948 when Chester Corporation took over the service.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/ff6c1a0c-098f-4060-bb39-65773d6c6abd/
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CHESTER BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION AND CHESTER DISTRICT NURSING ASSOCIATION