Workhouse Fever Hospital in North of Ireland: buildings, doctors & patients

Schedule

Wed May 28 2025 at 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland | Belfast, NI

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Part of the HERoNI Lecture series with speaker Gill Almond
About this Event

In 1844, following a world-wide typhus epidemic that affected many towns in Ireland, George Wilkinson, architect to the Poor Law Commissioners, was asked to produce designs for fever hospitals, to be added to workhouse sites. Although reluctant provision had been made for the sick poor in Wilkinson’s original workhouse designs, the workhouses were originally intended primarily for the able-bodied poor. The construction of the fever hospitals marked the beginning of the long transition made by many workhouses from buildings designed to discourage the poor from relying on the state, to modern hospital facilities caring for all. This talk will consider the architecture and layouts of the Fever Hospitals, some of the doctors associated with them, the types of diseases and treatments offered, the experience of patients and the survival and use of buildings to the present day.

Biography: Dr Gillian Allmond is an archaeologist of the post-medieval era, currently working on HED’s Second Survey of buildings of special architectural or historic interest. Gill is the author of a book, ‘Village and Colony asylums in Britain, Ireland and Germany, 1880-1914’ and her main research interest is buildings and landscapes associated with healthcare.

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Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 2 Titanic Boulevard, Belfast, United Kingdom

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