Birmingham and Midland Skin and Urinary Hospital which was initially known as the Birmingham and Midland Skin and Lock Hospital, was a specialist hospital in Birmingham.
History The hospital was one of a number of specialist hospitals founded in Birmingham in the late nineteenth century. The Birmingham and Midland Skin and Lock hospital was established in 1880 to treat people with both skin diseases and venereal diseases. By 1887–1888, a purpose built hospital designed by James and Lister Lea was built in John Bright Street to replace the small house in which the hospital had been established. By 1895, this was called the Birmingham and Midland Skin and Urinary Hospital and was also treating people with illnesses of the urinary tract. Today, patients are treated at the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.
Notable staff
Lilian Lambe Woodward (1869–1952), was matron from 1914.Matron's Annual Letter to Nurses, No.21, Matron's Annual Letter to Nurses, 1894–1916; RLHLH/N/7/2, No.21, April 1914, 45; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London She retired in 1929.Rogers, Sarah (2022). 'A Maker of Matrons'? A study of Eva Lückes's influence on a generation of nurse leaders: 1880–1919 (unpublished PhD thesis, University of Huddersfield, April 2022). Woodward trained at The London Hospital under Eva Luckes between 1901 and 1903.Lilian Lambe Woodward, Register of Probationers; RLHLH/N/1/8, 60; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London Before her training, Woodward had worked at a private hospital in Edgbaston for 11 years.
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