The facility opened as the Manchester Babies Hospital on 4 August 1914.[1]Catherine Chisholm was instrumental in establishing the hospital and was one of the first consultants there. The hospital was created as a small facility with 12 beds, aimed at providing specialist care for the "...more effective treatment of babies and very young children suffering from diarrhea and other gastrointestinal disorders."[2] It was based on the model of the London Infants Hospital but, as with the Clapham Maternity Hospital, all the doctors were female.[3]
In 1919, the hospital moved to Cringle Hall in Burnage, having previously been in Levenshulme and Chorlton-on-Medlock. It then had 50 beds; the number of patients increased from 82 in the first year to 430 in 1929. After the building of a new pavilion on the open-air principle with glass wards specially designed for the treatment of rickets in 1925, the number of cots rose to 80. In June 1935, a new hospital wing with much improved surgical facilities was opened by the Duchess of York. The whole facility was renamed the Duchess of York Hospital for Babies.[4]
^ ab"Duchess of York's Children's Hospital, Manchester". National Archive. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
^"Obituary: Catherine Chisholm CBE, BA, MD Manc". The Lancet. 260: 250. 2 August 1952. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(52)91590-0.
^(PDF). Museum of Science and Industry. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2014. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
^"Chisholm, Catherine". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
^Mohr, Peter D. "Dr Catherine Chisholm (1879–1952)", in: Manchester Memoirs; vol. 140 (2001–02), pp. 21–30
^The Book of Manchester and Salford. Manchester: George Falkner & Sons, 1929; pp. 135–36
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