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From: "Glennis Johnson" <>
Subject: Re: [UK-WORKHOUSE-HOSP] Holborn Workhouse
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:33:21 -0700
In-Reply-To: <8C8F2668C23F34B-15B4-368B@WEBMAIL-MA19.sysops.aol.com>


Thank you Keith. I wonder if there are any records where one could check
the date of arrival in these places.
Glennis

From:
hi i have thrree generations of births at St Sepulchres W/h in Smithfield
this later became part of the Holborn. The doctors who did the work there
came from St Barts just over the side of Smithfield market,one of the
leading teaching Hospitals of the time . They had trainee doctoers and those
ho taught them so had very good medicial care.

Keith



From:
Thank you Mary, it didn't seem logical that they would put their dear mother
in the workhouse a few months before she died! So I did rather think that
she perhaps had a heart attack and they took her to the hospital at the
Holborn Workhouse, (Hoxton New Town). The death certificate would not have
listed her home address as 16 Hatfield Street if she had been a resident of
the workhouse I should think. Hate to think she ended up in a workhouse
though.
Glennis
Arizona

From: "The Halletts" <>

Although she died
> in the Holborn Workhouse, her address is given as 16 Hatfield Street
which
> is the address of her son and his family where she was living in the
1891
> census. My question is; would some be taken to the Workhouse hospital
> even
> though they were not living there?

Hello Glennis,
Yes - the Workhouse hospital was often the only available source of medical
treatment available to many people, so it is not at all unusual to find
someone dying in the workhouse infirmary who is not actually a Workhouse
inmate.

Mary


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