DIRECTORY.] SHROP.3HIRE. 5 The following is a list of the hundreds in the Northern borough :-Quatford, Quatt (part of), St. division of the county, with the parishes contained in Leonard (Bridgnorth) and St. Mary Magdalene (Bridg­ them:- north). Hundred of North Bradford (Drayton division) :-Ad­ borough :-Ludlow. derley, Cheswardine, Child's Ercall, Drayton-in-Hales or Wenlock borough :-Barrow, Benthall, , Ditton , Hinstock, Hodnet, Moreton Say or More­ Priors, Hughley, Linley, Little Wenlock, Madeley, Monk­ ton Sea, Norton-in-Hales, Stoke-upon-Tern and Woore. hopton, , Posenhall and Willey. ( division) :-Moreton Corbet, , Wem Urban, Wem Rural, Weston and Wixhall-under-Bed- The Salop Infirmary, at , was first founded castle. (Whitchurch division) :-Ightfield, Lee, Brock- in April, 1745: the present Infirmary, built on the 11ite burst, , Stanton-upon-Hineheath, Whitchurch Rural of a former structu;re at a cost of more than £I8,ooo, and and Whitchurch Urban. opened for patients in 183o, is of freestone in the Classic Hundred of (Lower division) :-Kinnerley, style, with a Do.ric portico in the centre, from designs by Knockin, Melverly, Ruyton-of-the-Eleven-Towns, West Messrs. Haycock, of Shrewsbury; a wide terrace extends Felton. (Upper division) :-Halston, Llanyblodwell, along the eastern front, whence an extensive and interest­ LlanJ·mynech, Oswestry Rural, Oswestry Urban, St. ing view is obtained : an additional wing was completed in Martin, Selattyn, Soughton or Sychtyn and Whittington. x869 at a cost of £4,ooo, and in 1877 the interior was re- Hundred of Pimhill (Baschurch division) :-Baschurch, novated and re-arranged and several out-buildings added Great Ness, Little Ness, Montford, Petton and Shrawar- at a further cost of £s,ooo, and in :r8g8 the "Heywood~ dine. (Ellesmere division) :-Ellesmere Rural, Ellesmere Lonsdale" labor~tory was opened: the infirmary con~ Urban, Hordley, Loppington, Myddle and Welsh Hampton. tains 120 beds. A Nurses' Home was opened Nov. 10th, Hundred of South Bradford (Newport division) :-Blas rgiO, at a cost of about £12,000; the building is of red Magna, Cherrington, Chetwynd, Chetwynd .Aston, Church brick with stone dressings, and is five storeys in height. .Aston, Edgmond, Eyton-upon-the-Wildmoors, Kinnersley, Edward Burd M. D., M.C. Richard Waiter Owen Withers Lilleshall, Longford, Newport, Preston-upon-Wildmoors, L.R.C.P.Lond., E. Lycett Burd M.D., L.R.C.P.Lond. Tibberton and Woodcote. (Wellington division):- and Edward Cureton M.D., M.R.C.P.Edin. physicians .Atcham, Buildwas, Magna, Eaton Constantine, extraordinary; William Eddowes M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon Ercall Magna, Haughmond Demesne, Leighton, Longdon- extraordinary; Henry Willoughby Gardner M.D.Lond., upon-Tern, Roddington, Stirchley, Uppington, Upton L.R.C.P.Lond. RE>ginald Henry Urwick M.A., M.D., B.C. Magna, ·waters Upton or Upton Parva, Wellington, With- Camb., L.RC.P.Lond. and C. Victor Bulstrode M . .A., in~on, Wombridge, Wrockwardine and Wroxeter. M.D., B.C.Camb., L.R.C.P.Lond. physicians; Arthur Oswestry borough :-Oswestry Jackson F.R.C.S.Eng., H. H. B. Macleod F.R.C.S.Edin. Shrewsbury borough :-Holy Cross and St. Giles and Leonard .Joseph Godson M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P~ (Shrewsbury), Meole Brace (Shrewsbury), St. Alkmond Lond. surgeons; C. G. Russ Wood F.R.C.S.Eng., (Shrewsbury), St. Chad (Shrewsbury), St. Julian (Shrews- L. RC.P.Lond. ophthalmic .surgeon; Paul Mathews M.D., bury) and St. Mary (Shrewsbury) Ch.B.Edin. pathologist; William S. Edmond F.R.C.S. The following are the hundreds in the Southern divi- Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. radiographer; William Edward. :sion :- Harding L.D.S.R.C.S.Eng. dental surgeon; E. Mr Hundred and division of .Albrighton :-.Albrighton Lauderdale :\-LR.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. house sur# (chapelry), Astley, Battlefield, Broughton, Clive, :Fitz, geon; John Wheatley M.D.Lond., M.R.C.S.En~. health Grinshill, Hadnall, Preston Gubbals, St. Mary (Shrews- officer; Miss E. S. Garside, lady supt.; Jsph. Jenks,sec. bury) (part of) and Uffington The Bridgnorth and South Infirmary, Hundred of Brimstree (Bridgnorth division) :-Claver- originally in Holly Bush road, was established in 1841; Iev. ( division) :-Albrighton (parish), Badger, the present building was erected near the North Gate Beckbury, Boningale or Boninghall, Boscobel, Donington, in 1897, and contains 15 beds; the yearly average Kemberton, Ryton, Shifnal, Stockton, Button Maddock number of in-patients is about 16o and of out-patients. and Tong. about :z,ooo; C. G. Russ-Wood F.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P~ Hundred of Chirbury (Lower division) :-Chirbury, Lond. consulting surgeon; William Wallace Craig Hvssington (partly in Montgomery) and Shelve. M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. John Cayley Padwick Hundred of :-Clun and Llanvair Waterdine (Clun M.R.C. S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. and Louis Edginton Dick- division), and Mainstone (Mainstone division). son 1\f.D.Aberd., M.R.C.S.Eng. hon. medical officers; Hundred of Condover :-Meole Brace (Shrewsbury) John Greene M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. house sur­ (part of), St. Chad (Shrewsbury) (part of) and St. Julian geon; Rev. J. P. Wright, hon. sec. (Shrewsbury) (part of). (Cound division) :-Acton Bur- The Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital for Shropshire and nell, Berrington, Church Preen, Cound, Cressage, Barley, Wales, Shrewsbury, established in I818 as the Shrop­ Kenley, Pitchford and Ruckley and Langley. (Condover shire Eye and Ear Dispensary, was removed from Dog­ division) :-Church Pulverbatch, Condover, Frodesley, pole to the present buildings in Murivance in 1881; Leebotwood, Longnor, Smethcott, Stapleton, Sutton and these are of red Ruabon brick with terra-cotta dressings,. Woolsaston. in the Old English style, with overhanging gables and Hundred of Ford (Ford division) :-Alherbury (Lower verandahs, and well erected and furnished at a cost quarter), Cardeston or Cardiston, Ford, Great Hanwood, of over £12,ooo, raised by subscriptions; the hospi~al' Great Wollaston, Minsterley, St. Alkmond (Shrewsbury) contains 32 beds and a private ward for paying patients, (part of), St. Julian (Shrewsbury) (part of) and West- and an operating theatre; the average yearly number bury. (Pontesbury division) :-Habberley and Pontes- of in-patients being 8o8, of out-patients 4,5oo, and of bury. attendances 17,ooo; R. Brudenell Carter F.R.C.S.Eng. Hundred of Munslow (Lower division) :-Abdon, .Ash- hon. consulting surgeon; C. G. Russ-Wood F.R.C.S. ford Bowdler, Ashford Olrbonell, Bromfield, Clee St. Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. hon. surgeon; T. Law Webb M.D., Margaret, Cold Weston, Culminton, Diddlebury, Easthope, Ch.B.Birm., l\f.R C.S.Eng. hon. pathologist; Paul Halford, Heath, Holdgate, Hopton Cangeford or Hopton- Mathews M.D., Ch.B.Edin. hon. pathologist & hon. in-the-Hole, Long Stanton, Ludford {part of), Munslow, anresthetist; William Square Edmond F.R.C.S. hon. Onibury, Richard's Castle (part of), Stanton Lacy, Stoke radiographer; Henry Wells and Robin son and Co. St. Milborough, Stokesay and Tugford. (Upper divi- Limited, opticians; Edward Mylins, hon. treasurer; sion) :-Acton Scott, Cardington, , Edward Clothier, sec.; Miss M . .Alien, matron. Eaton, Hope Bowdler, Rushbury and Shipton. The Shropshire Convalescent and Surgical Home for Hundred of Over&:-Bitterley, Boraston, Burford,Greet, Women and Children, at Baschurch, was opened in Mils'()n, Nash, Neen Sollars, Silvington and Whitton. 1goo, and provides for Bo patients; in 19:12 the out- Hundred of Purslow(Bishop'sCastle division): Bishop's patie'Ilts were 200 and :132 operations were performed. Castle, Dinmore, Lydham, Mindtown, Moore, Norbury, H. W. Gardner M.D., M.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng. North Lydbury, Ratlinghope and Wentnor. (Stow divi- Robert Jones Ch.M.L'pool, L.R.C.P. & F.R. C.S.Edin.~ sion) :-Bedstone, Bettws, Clunbury, Clungunford, A. de Salis Stawell B..A., M.B., B.C.Camb., F.R.C.S. Edgton, Hopesay, Hopton Castle, and Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. and R. H. Urwick M.A., M.D., Winstanstow. B.C.Camb., M.R.C.S.Eng. hon. medical officers; C. Hundred of Stottesdon (Chelmarsh division) :-.Acton Thurston Holland M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. h{)n. Round, .Alveley, Astley Abbotts, .Aston Eyre, Billingsley, radiographer; L. J. Rice-Oxley L.D.S.R.C.S.Irel. hon. Chelmarsh, Chetton, Denxhill, Eardington, Glazeley,High- dental surgeon; Miss .A. G. Hunt & Miss E. Goodford, ley, Middleton Scriven, Mowill, Neenton, North Cleobury, superintendents; Mrs. Rowland Hunt, sen. sec. and Mi815 Oldbury, Quatt (part of), Romsley, Rudge, Sheinton, Sid- M. B. L)oyd, hon. sec. ~ury, Tasley, and Worfield. (Cleobury The County Lunatic Asylum for Salop, at Bicton division) :-Aston Botterell, Burwarton, Caynham, Cleo- Heath, near Shrewsbury, is a building in the Elizabethan bury Mortimer, Corely, Dowles, Farlow, Hope Baggot, style, and wa" opened in 1845, since which considerable Hopton Wafers, Kinlet, Loughton, Neen Savage, Stottes- additions have been made up to the year 1884, at a total den, Wheathill and Woodhouse. ,1 cost of £158,ooo, and the asylum -will now hold Boo