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• DIRECTORY. J NORFOLK. NORWICH. 279 site a.nd furn,ishing, .of about £64,000, from the designs of Suffield, was afterwards granted to the Corporation h1 · Mr. R. M. Phipson F.R.I.B.A. of Norwich, on the block Edward VI. as an almshouse, and endowed by Queen -system, and cousist~t of a series of detached buildings con Elizabeth with the confiscated estates of George Bedman 2 nected by oorridors and surrounded by airing courts : the in 1558, Thomas Codd. mayor, bequeathed various tene building is available for 397 patients, of whom about xoo ments to the hospital, and it has since received many .occupy single rooms, the other 300 being associated to other benefactions: in 1826 and 1829 it was enlarged gether in dormitories containing from 4 to II and 30 to and now contains 103 aged men, of whom ;z6 live in 44 patients each: there are I).OW (1904) 379 patients: in cottages with their wives, and 76 women, who are boarded t88x a mortuary and stables were built near the entrance and lodged ; thet"e is a staff of 13 nurses ; the income, lodge, as well as two semi-detached cottages for the amounting to about £7,500 a year, is derived from estates artisans : wo.rkshops for the pursuit of various handicraft-a in the city and county and other sources; M.r. John Cox, owere added, and in 1895 this department was extended master. -so as to employ female npbolstresses, and all the clothing Doughty's Hospital, in Calvert street, founded in 1687 needed by the patients is now made by themselves : in by William Doughty, who bequeathed £6,ooo for its 1902 a new dormitory was built, with 30 beds, the ground erection and endowment, consists of buildings forming a. 'floor extended so as to hold 26 beds and to supply 5 quadrangle, with a garden in the centre, and will hold -single rooms, and 8 other bedrooms &c. were ·provided : 24 poor men and r9 women, each of whom receives ss. 6d. in 1903 additionaL day rooms were erected for No. 3 wE>ekly, with coals, and a suit every two years: the hos• -ward: attached to the asylum are about so ~teres of land, pital was thoroughly restored and some new buildings the cultivation of which is intrusted to the patients, under added in 1:869. direction, with very satisfactory results ; William Harris Bethel Hospital, for the insane, in Bethel street, was , M.D., F.R.C.S.Edin. superintendent; Arthur Sykes 'M.R.O. S .En g. assistant. erected 'in 1713 by Mrs. Mary Chapman, in accordance Heigham Hall, at North Heigham, is a private lunatic with the request of her deceased husband, the Rev. S. asylum for the treatment of patients belonging to the Chapman, sometime rector of Thorpe St. Andrew, near upper and middle classes ; the house stands in about 12 Norwich, and for its endowment she devised all her per acres of well-wooded grounds, and is licensed for 95 male sonal estate by will to seven trustees, giving to them -and female patients; Mr. Alfred Mottram is the licensee, the sole management of the hospital : the buildings have and A. McWilliam M.A., M.B., O.M. is the medical super been much enlarged and improved from time to time, intendent. and will now hold xoo patients; in the committee room The Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, founded in 1770, is a portrait of the foundress : . the usual fee is 30s. was rebuilt in part on the old site in 1882, the first stone weekly, but this charge is modified in special circum 'being laid by H.M. the King, then Prince of Wales, 17th stances ; the rooms are comfortably furnished, a liberal June, 1879; the building is of red brick with white stone diet is allowed, and there is an ample staff of trained dressings, in n modified form of the Queen Anne style, from attendants to look after and wait upon the patients: -designs by Messrs. E. Boardman and T. H. Wyatt, archi attached to the hospital is a tennis ground, with a pavilion, tects, of Norwich and London, and was erected at a total erected in 1904. Divine service is held in the house ev~ry -cost, including furnishing, of about £57,II6: it is on the Sunday by the vicar of St. Peter's, Mancroft. "Pavilion system, the plan fol:owing the form of the letter The Girls' Hospital, New lLakenham, for the mainte 'H, the administra.tive block being in the centre, facing nance, education and training for domestic service of St. Stephen's road : the out-patients' department is en between 30 and 40 girls, has an income of about £650 tirely distinct, and has been formed in the old north-east from estates and funded property. wing, which has been further adapted for the purposes of The Magdalen Asylum or Female Home is at York villa. the anatomical museum: in the rear is a chapel in the Chapel Field road, and there are a number of minor chari <Gothic style! the new building was opened by T.R.H. ties for distr~bution in money and kind. the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, 20 Aug. 1883, Chapel Field, an ancient archery ground, was converted The Leicester Nurses' Home was erected for the nursing by the Corporation in x88o into public pleasure gardens. ~taff and private nurses of the Hospital by the Rt. Hon. In the centre is an elaborate iron pavilion, designed by ihe Earl of Leicester K.G. President of the Hospital, who the late Thomas Jeckyll esq. and exhibited at the Paris gave £2o,ooo for its.. construction and endowment: it and Philadelphia Exhibitions. The 'Police -and other ad.· oins the Hospital on_ the- south side, and was opened •• bands perform here on various evenings during the 'lil 1903· season. A portion of the ·Chapel Field has been inclosed The Norwich Dispensary, Maddennarket, was founded as a children's playground, and another portion is 'in 1804, and during the year 1903 had 29,147 attendances, occupied by the Volunteer Drill Hall. already mentioned. ·5,545 of these involving consultations at the Dispensary, -and 29,147 receiying visits from the medical staff. There is a Public Recreation ground in Earlham road. The Woodland pleasure ground, the gift of Mrs. Radford 1 Th~ Jenny Lind Infirmary for Sick Children, in Unthank 'Toad, was first established 30 May, 1853• by the proceeds Prym, was opened in June, 1904. -Qf two concerts given by Mdlle. Jenny Lind (known later Mousehold (anciently" Monkshold ") heath, x mile north ·as Madame Goldschmidt). The in-patient department of the city, and comprising an area of about x8o acres, was removed from Pottergate street in 1898 to temporary has been acquired by tlie Corporation, and laid. out as a 'Premises pending the erection of a new building- on the recreation ground. -present si.te, of about 3 acres, given for this purpose by Carrow House is the seat of the Misses Colman. the late Mr. J. J. Oolman in memory of his wife. This The following places 'are wit~ the city of Norwich building, designed by Mr. E. T. Boardman, architect. and the names of the inhabitants are given with NorWich. ·towards the cost of which Mr. Oolman contributed EARLHAM is a village within the county of the city £xo,ooo, was opened in 1900, and comprises an adminis of Norwich, in the rural deanery of Humbleyard, 2! miles trative block in the centre, with wards on either side on west from Norwich station and on the river Yare, QVer -the ground floor ; it is fitted with the newest hospital which is an old stone bridge of one arch. The church of Tequirements, and affords 45 beds. The out-patient de St. Mary, partly covered with ivy, is a buildmg of fl.inb -partment, which has been enlarged and renovated during stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, 'I899, remains in Pottergate street. The number of in nave, north transept, south porch .and an embattled ·patients in 1903 was 297, and x,63o new cases and 6,829 western tower containing 2 bells : the chancel is divided ()ld cases were treated at the out-patients' department. from the IJave by a richly-carved oak screen: there is a. Xlut-door recommendations are given for subscriptions of memorial window to John Gurney esq.: in the chancel is :;s. and upwards, and in-door recommendations for xos. 6d. a fine and richly-sculptured marble monument to the -and upwards. The Infirmary is managed by a committee Bacon family, formerly in St. Giles' church, London, but oQf ladiE>s and gentlemen appointed by the governors. transferred here by W aller Bacon esq. : the roof was The Norfolk 11.nd NOO"Wich Eye Infirmary, in Potterg-a.te covered with lead in 1745 and the interior repaired in ~treet, was opened in 1822, and during the year 1903 there 1834: there are 120 sittings. The register dates from -were 735 cases under treatment, xsx of these being in- the year 1621. 'Ihe living is a vicarage, consolidated -patients. The income for the year was £529 13s. while with Bowthorpe, net income £65, in the gift of F. :S. the expE>nditure amounted to £690 17s. Frank esq. and held since 1899 by the Rev. Thomas The Norwich Maternity Charity is in Bethel street. Temple Brown B.A. of Trinity College, Oxford, who is Th~ Norwich Homreopathic Dispensary is in St. Peter's also rector oi Colney. Earlham Hall, the property of ·~rP.et; during the year 1903 there were about s,ooo Frederick Bacon Frank esq.