Children’s Hospital Special Appeal

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Date:1886

Description:In 1886 the Children’s Hospital organised a campaign to raise funds to stop a ward from closing with the loss of ten beds. The Children’s Hospital was dependent on charity and donations in order to deliver its services.

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Portraits of Individual ‘Little Bricklayers’ from A Souvenir of the Children’s Bricklaying Ceremony, arranged and carried out under the direction of Mrs J. E. Player

The Children’s Hospital Brick League was established in 1913. The League’s objective was to raise money ...

‘Opening of the Christian Kunzle Alpine Home for Children’, The Davos Courier

This article reports the arrival of 36 children from Birmingham Children’s Hospital at the Alpine Home ...

Photograph of children playing outside a Birmingham convalescent home

Case Notes for Ellen Allport, 1873-1880, All Saints Mental Health Casebook

Other children with health and learning problems were less well served. In the middle of the 19th century ...

Drawing of George De Courcey, All Saints Mental Health Casebook

This drawing by Robson, the asylum doctor, is the only visual record of a child in All Saints Asylum. ...

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Schools Health and Medicine Children and Childhood Birmingham 1801-1900 (19th century)

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