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Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline

        

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Turkish baths for hospitals

Last updated: 19 December 2007
           

Individual establishments arranged alphabetically by place.

Known opening and closing dates are indicated in the table, as is the existence of more detailed chronologies. All articles include a chronology. However, please note that chronologies do not appear in the version of the site without frames.

Dates in blue are accurate openings or closures to the best of our knowledge;
Dates in red are first and last sightings.
Plus or minus signs indicate 'and later' or 'and earlier'. 

If you have access to local newspapers and can add, amend, or correct any dates, please do contact us.

 

DENBIGH: The Infirmary

1871— 

DUBLIN: Adelaide Hospital, Breck

1866—1875+

EDINBURGH: Royal Infirmary

1900—

HUDDERSFIELD: Infirmary Building, New North Road

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LIMERICK: City Infirmary (Cabinet bath)

1857+

LONDON: Brompton Consumptive Hospital

** 1879+     

LONDON: St Thomas's Hospital

*** 1871—1877     

LONDON: University College Hospital

1873    

NETLEY: Military Hospital

1864—

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE: Infirmary

1860—1897

SHREWSBURY: Royal Shrewsbury Infirmary

1861—

 
** This was in the building designed by Henry Wyatt and opened in 1879, but there was also a Turkish bath designed by David Urquhart (around 1861) constructed in the old hospital building.

*** The new St Thomas's Hospital building (designed by Henry Currey and opened in 1871) included a Turkish bath after a lengthy campaign by Dr Goolden, but by 1877 it had still not been used.

                         

 
 


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Plan of Turkish bath at Newcastle-on-Tyne Infirmary

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