15 Trent Valley Road ~ Institution?

[Brock]

I know that in the the later years when workhouses still existed it became usual practise to record an address instead of actually mentioning that the place was a workhouse on birth/death certificates. I think that this practise was also used to disguise mental institutions & any other places which might cause embarrassment for the family should it be recorded on official certificates etc.
I have just discovered that an ancestor used to live in the almshouses in Yoxall in her later years but the place of death on her death certificate dated 1942 is recorded as 15 Trent Valley Road.
Could anyone possibly tell me please whether this may have been the address which was used in order to disguise the fact that it may have been an institution of some kind? I do know that there was a workhouse in Trent Valley Road in former years & wondered whether it may have later been used as some form of hospital as were many former workhouses throughout the country. My ancestor does have senility recorded as one of the causes of death so I thought that this could relate to it being a mental institution of some kind.

Thank you,
Brock

[geneius]

South Staffs PCT show this as an address:

St. Michaels Hospital, 15a Trent Valley Road, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS13 6EF

[mikejee]

The last post seems to answer your question. ButI don't know if the following from the Yoxall section of Kellys for 1940 is of any interest;
Yoxall Yeynell-lngram Oottage Hospital, situated on an eminence, is an edifice of red bnick in the Elizabethan style, erected in 1873 at the expense of Miss G. E. Meynell-Ingram, who also left a legacy of £5,000 to the same, augmented by a further bequest of £5,000 by the Hon. Mrs. Meynell-Ingram, of Hoar Cross Hall; it contains 5 beds and I cot. Charitable bequests amounting to about £5o yearly are distributed.
Might this be the almshouse ?
Mike
to the poor in bread, clothes and money.

[mikejee]

Sorry but I inserted my name at the end before the end of the text (by accident, I'm nor drunk !) and can't seem to correct it

[Peter Goodey]

15 Trent Valley Road was the workhouse, presumably the infirmary in this case.

By 1942 it was no longer called a workhouse but a Public Assistance Institution. The instructions to registrars that the address should be recorded in this way still stood. The Poor Laws effectively continued, albeit with various reforms and name changes, until the creation of the welfare state following the 1945 election.

[Brock]

Thank you all ~ I appreciate all of your help which has been most interesting & of great help.

Brock.