Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust history

Surplus payments from patients were small and were paid into the general account of the asylum until 1829 when they were divided between the three parties.

The Gloucester Dispensary and Vaccine Institution established in 1831 was supported by subscriptions and donations.

92) In 1832 the board of health dealing with an outbreak of cholera in Gloucester bought a house in Barton Street and fitted it as a temporary hospital. (fn.

The infirmary behind the union workhouse was demolished in 1850 to make way for the South Wales railway (fn.

The conversion, which included adding a third storey to the original wings, was interrupted by a serious fire in 1858. (fn.

The asylum, which opened in 1860 and was known later as Barnwood House Hospital, (fn.

By 1864 the hospital, with 60 patients, was full.

Over 80 cases of eye disease were treated at the Gloucester Infirmary each year by 1866 when W. H. Hyett of Painswick took the lead in opening the Gloucestershire Eye Institution in Gloucester. (fn.

30) On the north side a wing, built following a diversion of Parliament Street, opened in 1871.

80) In 1872 the Gloucester Dispensary was reorganized as a provident society supported by members' payments and voluntary contributions, and a house in Longsmith Street was fitted as a dispensary. (fn.

69) and adjoined the hospitals out-patient department, which occupied that building, known as College Gardens, from 1873 (fn.

D 177, St Lucy's Home and children's hosp., trust deed 1875; Glos.

67) In 1876 Gambier Parry moved the home to a large house at the corner of Hare Lane and Pitt Street. (fn.

127) and in 1878 the county bought an estate in Barnwood, east of Coney Hill, for the site of a new asylum.

In 1885 it was enlarged and another ward created in it. (fn.

Rep. of Port Medical Off. of Health, 1891: copy in ibid.

In 1897 the corporation began a new infectious diseases hospital outside the city at Over.

70) to 1905, when a new dispensary opened in the hospital's grounds. (fn.

G.B.R., B 4/6/3; B 4/7/2; Rep. of Port Medical Off. of Health, 1907: copy in ibid.

In the early 20th century there was further building at both, including a block opened at the second asylum in 1909. (fn.

Rep. of Medical Off. of Health, 1914: copy in G.B.R., B 3/49; Glouc.

At the Over hospital a pavilion for tuberculosis patients was provided in 1915 by a joint committee of the city and county councils.

48) In 1927 Mary Fluck founded a convalescent home in Longford for women and children of the city and neighbourhood. (fn.

Also in conjunction with the city corporation the society ran an antenatal clinic begun in 1928, (fn.

40) In 1930 the infirmary was transferred to the corporation and became known as Gloucester City General Hospital. (fn.

76) St Lucy's Home was closed in 1933 following the withdrawal of the Clewer sisters. (fn.

51) and ran a maternity hospital from 1940.

That year the corporation requisitioned and fitted the Fluck convalescent home as a temporary maternity hospital while it built Gloucester Maternity Hospital, a single-storeyed building which opened behind the City General Hospital in 1943. (fn.

53) The corporation opened an antenatal and infant welfare clinic in Great Western Road in 1962. (fn.

57) Under a Scheme of 1974 the society provided help for the sick poor of the city and adjoining parishes. (fn.

35) The wards in Southgate Street were closed in 1975 (fn.

132) In 1981 the two hospitals had over 900 beds. (fn.

The Value Added Tax Act 1994 provides a mechanism through which NHS trusts can qualify for refunds on contracted out services.