Lincoln Workhouse hospital

[freddie999]

Does anyone have any information if there was a hospital as part of Lincoln Workhouse, around 1939. My grandfather's death certificate recorded the place where he died was 8a Burton Road, Lincoln - the address of the workhouse. He wasn't a resident in the workhouse, and had a wife & children living in town in a residential house.
I am working on the theory that he would have been admitted to the workhouse hospital as his stomach cancer condition worsen. I have searched the internet, but cannot find any mention of a hospital as part of the work house. I am aware of 'the Lawns' which was an asylum, not a medical hospital.

Any advice on this would be appreciated. thanks Freddie

[grisel]

If you google 'The Development of Municipal General Hospitals in English County Boroughs in the 1930s' Burton Road poor law infirmary in Lincoln is particularly mentioned in ref no 25 with a description of the wards etc.

[Peter Goodey]

It would no longer be termed a workhouse in 1939 and would be under the management of the local authority.

I can't see anything in the Hospital Records Database about surviving records. Your best plan is to ask Lincolnshire Archives what, if any, records they might have.

[Geoff Everitt]

It was known as Burton Road Institution at that time. Lincs FHS has transcribed its death register I believe.

See here
http://
users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/Lincoln

[Historian2]

I have been looking at the role of the workhouse in 1943 as my mother trained as a nurse at the Emergency Hospital Burton Road Lincoln. Her registration certificate gives the hospital address as Burton rd and the only building that fits this is the old workhouse. I have spent quite a lot of time in Lincoln Archives and the Library but found no actual evidence to the workhose being a hospital, but the archavists all are of the same opinion in that it was used as a hospital some time from the late 1930's to 1950's. The only avenue left to investigate are the local papers for that period and when I get a day free will spend some time in the library going through the microfilms. One other piece of evidence the workhouse was a hospital being my uncle used to walk from the barracks on Burton Rd to see my mother and his surviving daughter remembers him saying it was just down the road, but this could be wrong.
not sure if this helps and will let you know if I find any other info

[Peter Goodey]

Is there a mystery? As discussed above (messages #2, 3 and 4), local authorities took over from Boards of Guardians in the 1930s and the workhouse became the Burton Road Institution. It was listed as a designated mental hospital under the NHS.

[Historian2]

The mystery being what was the Workhouse used for in the 1930 1940's. The NHS did not start until 5th July 1947 and the two Mental Hospitals were the Lawns and Bracebridge Heath. The other hospital on Long Leys lane was the Fever Hospital. The only other Hospital in that area was at St Georges Barracks. The workhouse minute books finish before 1930 and Lincoln Archives spent some considerable time yesterday looking for records but found none hence the only other possible source of information being the papers of the time. It could be that no records have survived.

[Peter Goodey]

The mystery being what was the Workhouse used for in the 1930 1940's.

It was a Public Assistance Institution effectively continuing the same range of 'services' as the workhouse. As the workhouse web site puts it "the majority of [inmates] continued to be the old, the mentally deficient, unmarried mothers, and vagrants". Hospital services continued as they did in the workhouse system. The number of reported births and deaths at "8a Burton Road" confirms this.