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west cornwall hospital

Taken of the Rear of West Cornwall Hospital.
The Penzance Public Dispensary and Humane Society was formed in 1809,

with Thomas Giddy, Valentine LeGrice and Dr John Bingham Borlase;

the Dispensary was first located in Market Jew Street, then Chapel Street in 1813, and in a new premises in Chapel Street in 1823;

In 1871 the Dispensary moved to St Clare Street (on the site of the old workhouse and prison)

with the addition of an institution in 1874 namely The West Cornwall Infirmary;

A new wing was built in 1887, the cost of £1,000 being donated by Edward Bolitho, Thomas Bolitho and William Bolitho;

In 1892, there were 124 In-Patients and 1,826 Out-Patients;

the whole Institution is supported by voluntary contributions.

The whole building remained under the name of Dispensary until 1929,

which then became named The West Cornwall Hospital, which also incorporated the hospital building erected in 1909.

Another wing had been added in 1926.
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None of the pictured work remains. Date of phoyograph not given, but the whole hospital was rebuilt completely new in 1904 to designs and work by Perkins and Caldwell. In the circumstances, looking at the details of the older existing building, it could not be that far from a probability that Oliver Caldwell was the designer.
 

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