York County Hospital
{{See also|Southlake Regional Health Centre}}
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| Name = York County Hospital
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| Image = Former County Hospital, York - geograph.org.uk - 1110782.jpg
| Caption = The third incarnation of the hospital was erected in Monkgate in 1851.
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| Location = York
| Region = North Yorkshire
| State = England
| Country = United Kingdom
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| HealthCare = NHS
| Type = General
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| Founded = 1740
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York County Hospital (1740–1977) was a hospital in York, England. The building, which is grade II listed, has been converted for residential use.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1257202|desc=County House|grade=II|access-date=21 August 2017}}
History
File:York County Hospital, York, England. Steel engraving by H. C Wellcome V0014646.jpg
The hospital has its origins in a small hospital established in Monkgate in April 1740.{{cite web|url=http://www.yorkhistory.org.uk/hospital.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100824113330/http://www.yorkhistory.org.uk/hospital.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 August 2010|title=York County Hospital|publisher=York History|access-date=21 September 2018}} It moved to larger premises in Monkgate in 1745.
According to one account, "the benevolent Lady Hastings, who, in the year 1749, bequeathed a legacy of £500, for the relief of the diseased poor in the county of York; which fund being augmented by other contributions, the present edifice was soon after erected."{{cite book|last=|first=|title=The Stranger's guide through the City of York and its cathedral|date=1837|publisher=Bellerby's|location=York|pages=161–162|edition=6|oclc=644088283}}
In 1840 there was a competition to design a new hospital and in 1851 the original (1745) building was demolished and replaced with a new building costing around £11,000 - £7,000 from subscriptions and £4,000 from existing funds. The new building was built behind the previous building and offered considerably more space, with one hundred beds. It was designed by J. B. and W. Atkinson.{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/city-of-york/pp460-472#h3-0012|title='Public services', in A History of the County of York: the City of York|first=P M |last=Tillott|location=London|year=1961|pages=460–472|publisher= British History Online|access-date=28 October 2018}}
In 1887, the hospital merged with the York Eye Institution which had been opened in 1875, but which was being rarely used.{{cite web|title=The National Archives {{!}} Search the archives {{!}} Hospital Records{{!}} Details|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=1084|website=www.nationalarchives.gov.uk|access-date=21 August 2017}} A nurses’ home was built in 1905.
York suffered a major attack on 29 April 1942, one of the Baedeker raids by the Luftwaffe. Many of the casualties, who would later go on to die, were treated at York County Hospital.{{cite news|title=Remembering the York Blitz bombing|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-17872823|access-date=21 August 2017|work=BBC News|date=29 April 2012}}{{cite web|title=List of those who died in the air raid on York 29 April 1942|url=https://www.stmartinsyork.org.uk/pdf/martin/1942casualties.pdf|website=stmartinsyork.org.uk|access-date=21 August 2017}}
In 1977 the hospital facilities moved to York Hospital which had six hundred beds; the ante-natal clinic remained on-site until 1980. The Sainsbury's supermarket at Jewbury was then built while the hospital building, renamed County House, was used as the headquarters of Yorkshire Water before being converted for residential use.{{cite web|title=Understanding the city, Seven - Monkgate|url=https://www.york.gov.uk/downloads/file/5900/7monkgate|website=www.york.gov.uk|access-date=21 August 2017|page=3|format=PDF}}
People linked with the hospital
- Francis Drake, surgeon 1740-1745{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/yorkshirearchae01unkngoog#page/n60/mode/2up|title=Memoir of Francis Drake of York|page=44|publisher=The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal|year=1875|volume=3|first=Robert|last=Davies}}
- John Burton, physician and man midwife 1740-1746"Burton, John (1697-1771)". Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- George Stubbs, painter to the medical staff{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mFrO5o2X2EcC&q=Francis+Drake+1740+york+county+hospital&pg=PA20|title=George Stubbs, Painter|first1= Judy |last1=Egerton|first2=George|last2= Stubbs|page=20| publisher=Yale University Press|year=2007|isbn=978-0300125092}}
- Clifton Wintringham senior, physician to replace John Burton 1746{{cite ODNB|id=29781|first=Joan|last=Lane|title=Wintringham, Clifton}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=O65634 Hospital archives] at the Borthwick Institute
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Category:1740 establishments in England
Category:Hospitals disestablished in 1977
Category:Defunct hospitals in England
Category:Hospital buildings completed in 1851
Category:Hospitals established in the 1740s
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