At six-years-old, Bobby Doherty from Belfast wasn't playing or riding his bike - he was lying entombed in plaster from head-to-foot in Musgrave Park Hospital after contracting polio. Former workhouse http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Newtownards/, Opened in 1964. All spaces are daylit and where possible naturally ventilated. Purdysburn house as depicted on Kennedy's 'Map of County Down', dated 1755. This fairly modest two-storey block, was hugely influential. [Sources: Dictionary of Irish Architects; Ballymena Weekly Telegraph, 27 Feb 1915, p.5. Always consult a medical provider for diagnosis and treatment. He became Chief Engineer of the Air Transport Auxiliary. History [ edit] It now belongs to the Corporation of Belfast, and the beautiful old mansion is used as a Lunatic Asylum. [refs and sources: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, admin records from 1903: http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Larne/ ], Sir Thomas and Lady Edith Dixon Hospital, Cairndhu. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Closed 1992. Acute mental health inpatient service. F. D. Brown acted as consulting mechanical engineer. Throughout its lifespan, the hospital was the main regional centre for oncology, offering radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Non-acute hospital, services include neurology, care of older people and child and family centre. It was extended by Blackwood & Jury 1927. He was brother of the Rev Narcissus Batt who wrote extensive historical memoirs www.libraryireland.com/articles/belfast60/index.php. It provided accommodation for 333 patients, in four wards, two infirmaries and 45 single rooms. It had nicely planted well laid out grounds. centres, with a depth of 24ft, two bays forming a six-bed ward. H. T. Cooke for 2,230. The site went on the market in April 2013, and in June 2014 it emerged a sale had been agreed. Formerly a workhouse for Ballycastle Poor Law Union designed by George Wilkinson and built in 1841-2 for 300 inates. Plans had been drawn up by 1956 for a new hospital for mental patients at an estimated cost of 2m, to provide 750 beds. cerebro-spinal fever treated with Flexner's and Jobling's serum. Throughout its lifespan, the hospital was the main regional centre for oncology, offering radiotherapy and chemotherapy. This fairly modest two-storey block, was hugely influential. Please enter a valid 5-digit Zip Code. 52, no.3, March 1956, pp.180-1. Work commenced in the Spring of 1913, supervised by Arthur Taylor, from Caergwrie, Flintshire, Wales, the clerk of works. Mr. Thomas has just supplied furniture to the Purdysburn Fever Hospital, and all of it was made in his own works, another example of valuable local industry.
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