Healthcare facilities & charities

 

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Hospitals

Ambulance

Healthcare

Convalescent Homes

Mental Defectives

Permanent Infirmity and Old Age

Municipal Baths

Healthcare Charities

 

 

Hospitals

Bradford Royal Infirmary and Dispensary  - Westgate

Children’s Hospital – St Mary’s Road

Ilkley Hospital and Convalescent Home - Ilkley

Leeds Road (Fever) HospitalLeeds Road

Municipal Maternity Hospital – Horton Lane

Royal Eye and Ear Hospital – Hallfield Road

St Luke’s Hospital (became municipal hospital in 1920) – Horton Lane

Waddilove’s Samaritan Hospital for Women – Queen’s Road

 

Ambulance

Police Ambulance

 

Healthcare

Anti-natal clinics - Horton Lane and Green Lane

Anti-Tuberculosis Centre – Horton Lane

Bradford District Nursing Association – Horton Lane

Dental Clinic – Edmund Street

Infant clinics – Edmund Street& 10 branch clinics

Health Visitors

Municipal Midwives Service

School Clinics - Great Horton Road, Green lane

School Dental Clinic – Great Horton Road

St John Ambulance Brigade – Maidstone Street

Venereal Clinic - Westgate

 

Convalescent Homes

Addingham Holiday Home (for tired mothers and their children)

Ambler Holiday Home - Hest Bank Morecambe

Bierley Hall Sanatorium for women and girls – Dudley Hill

Cookridge Convalescent Hospital - Headingley

Craig Convalescent Home (for children) - Morecambe

Grassington Sanatorium - Grassington

Semon’s Convalescent Home - Ilkley

Woodlands Convalescent Home -  Rawdon

 

Mental Defectives

Ashfield Institution for Mentally Deficient Men and Boys - Thornton

Westwood Institution for Mentally Deficient Women and Girls - Clayton

Daisy Hill InstitutionDaisy Hill

 

Permanent Infirmity and Old Age

Adult Deaf and Dumb Institution - Hallfield Drive

Daisy Hill Homes for the Aged PoorDaisy Hill

Bowling Park Institution – Bowling

Melbourne Place Almshouses – Horton

Rand’s Almshouses – Whetley Lane

Royal Institution for the Blind - Frizinghall

St Catherine’s Home for Cancer and Incurables – St Mary’s Road

Tradesmen’s Home – Manningham

Yorkshire Home for Chronic and Incurables - Harrogate

 

Municipal Baths

Bowling – Wakefield Road

Leeds Road – Leeds Road

Manningham – Carlisle Road

Undercliffe – Otley Road

West Bowling – Manchester Road

The Windsor (Central) - Morley Street

Wyke

Cottage baths – Dyson Street, Bolton Road, Heaton, Great Horton, Broomfields, City Road, Tong Street, Greengates, Prince Street, Livingstone Street, Brownroyd, Tennyson Place

School Baths – Lapage Street, Grange Road, Green Lane, Feversham Street, Wapping Road, Wisby

 

Healthcare Charities

Bradford Hospital & Convalescent Fund

Fever Hospital Fund

John Harrison’s Fund

Royal Infirmary Samaritan Society

The Sick Fund for Gentlefolk –Heaton

Tired Mothers’ Holiday Fund

Victoria Children’s Convalescent Fund

 

Source

The Texture of Welfare A Survey of Social Service in Bradford (1923) P.S. King & Son, London