The David Lewis Northern Hospital was located in Great Howard Street, Liverpool. It was first established in 1834 and closed in 1978.
History
The hospital had its origins in a facility which was established in Leeds Street to deal with victims of accidents and emergencies in the
dock area and which opened as the Northern Hospital in March 1834.[2] It moved to a purpose-built hospital, designed by Edward Welch, in Great Howard Street in September 1845.[2]
The foundation stone for a re-built facility on the same site, financed by the David Lewis Trust, was laid by the
Earl of Derby in October 1896 and the new facility was opened by
Princess Louise as the David Lewis Northern Hospital in March 1902.[3] It joined the
National Health Service in 1948.[4] After services transferred to the
Royal Liverpool Hospital, the David Lewis Northern Hospital closed in 1978.[5]
Notable staff
Annie Croft Godwin Glover (1868–1931), Matron from 1903 until she married in 1914.[6] Glover trained at
The London Hospital under
Eva Luckes between April 1896 and May 1898.[7] During her training Glover worked in the 1897
Maidstone Typhoid Epidemic.[8][9][7] Glover rapidly gained promotion to Sister under Mabel Cave at The Metropolitan Hospital for six months in 1898.[10] She was appointed Matron's Assistant at the
Westminster Hospital in 1899[11] until she became Matron in Liverpool.[12] Glover was also Principal Matron of the Nursing Corps of the South-West Lancashire Territorial Division.[13]
^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 A study of Eva Lückes’s influence on a generation of nurse leaders:1880–1919' (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Huddersfield, April 2022)
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abAnnie Croft Godwin Glover, Register of Probationers; RLHLH/N/1/5, 112; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London.
^Sarah Rogers, ‘The Nurses of the 1897 Maidstone Typhoid Epidemic: Social Class and Training. How representative were they of mid-nineteenth century nursing reforms?’ (Unpublished Master of Letters dissertation, Dundee, March 2016)
^Annie Goodwin Croft Glover, Register of Sisters and Nurses; RLHLH/N/4/1/197; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London
^Matron’s Annual Letter to Nurses, No.7, Matron's Annual Letter to Nurses, 1894–1916; RLHLH/N/7/2, No.7, February 1900, 22; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London
^"'The Nurses of the David Lewis Northern Hospital, Liverpool: Interview with the Matron.'". The Hospital, Nursing Section. 37 (942): 33–35. 15 October 1904.