North Manchester General Hospital

North Manchester General Hospital
The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Geography
Location	Crumpsall, Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Organisation
Care system	Public NHS
Hospital type	District General
Services
Emergency department	Yes Accident & Emergency
Beds	800
History
Founded	1904
Links
Website	http://www.pat.nhs.uk/
Lists	Hospitals in England

North Manchester General Hospital is a large NHS hospital located in Crumpsall in the north of the English city of Manchester. It is operated as part of the Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. There is an accident and emergency unit, together with a maternity unit, high dependency unit and a mental health wing.

The hospital has undergone extensive work regarding its size and layout. The main entrance is in the newly built "Phase 1" part of the building, whereas most of the wards are in the old part of the building. A&E is in the new building, along with infectious diseases and tropical medicine.

The extensive hospital site originally included three separate hospitals: Crumpsall Hospital, Springfield Hospital and Delaunays Hospital which included specialist mental health services which are included in the new hospital.

This is now the only hospital in North Manchester, as Ancoats Hospital, Victoria Memorial Jewish Hospital, Monsall Hospital and the Northern Hospital were all closed in the latter part of the 20th century. The modern hospital has wings named Monsall Wing, Ancoats Wing and Jewish Victoria Wing, in memory of these former hospitals.

The new Manchester Workhouse, which later became Springfield Hospital, was built in 1855. The architects were Mills and Murgatroyd, and the contractors Robert Neil & Sons of Strangeways. They also designed and built the infirmary. It ceased to be a workhouse in 1930. In 1970 it was amalgamated with the other hospitals mentioned in this article under the North Manchester Hospital Management Committee. In 1883 it was reported that were 347 lunatics in the hospital. One of the inmates complained that he was fed on porridge 14 times a week. Inmates were given a weekly tobacco allowance.

Crumpsall Hospital was built in 1876 by the Manchester Poor law union as an infirmary associated with the Workhouse. The original workhouse infirmary was on the site now occupied by Manchester Victoria station and the site was sold to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1875. It cost £137,000, including fitting out. There were seven parallel three-storey ward blocks connecting to a central corridor. It was designed to accommodate 1400 patients. There was also an administration block with a dispensary on the ground floor and an operating theatre on the top floor. The basement contained a laundry and a bakery. Heating was by open fires, but there was piped hot water and gas lighting. Apart from the nurses there were no paid staff. All the other workers came from Springfield workhouse. Men were supplied with corduroy suits with waistcoats, belts, boots and a knotted red spotted handkerchief. Until the 1920s the workhouse women who cleaned the hospital were known as scrubbers. The name, age, prescription and dietary requirements of each patient were written on a notice hung on the wall at the head of the bed.

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