Nottingham Castle Gate Hospital

Nottingham's Castle Gate Hospital, 29-31 Castle Gate, was a women's hospital opened to some controversy in 1875:[1]

This institution, which has been recently opened, appears to have been started under circumstances which have caused much local professional annoyance. Mr. G. Elder. the surgeon to the Hospital, is reputed to have been the prime mover in the affair; and so quietly was it managed, that, until an announcement appeared one morning in the Nottingham journals stating the fact that a new Hospital for Women had been opened the day before, scarcely a medical man in the neighbourhood had heard that it was likely to come into existence.

and later merged with Samaritan Hospital in Raleigh Street to become the Nottingham Women's Hospital in Peel Street.[2][3] Early references to the Castle Gate hospital named it simply as Nottingham Hospital for Women.[4]

The hospital included an out-patient department which opened on 24 September 1875 and in the first year of opening 364 patients were seen with 2,271 attendances. There were initially only 2 in-patient beds but which were increased to 8 on the 1 July 1876 with reports of being almost completely filled thereafter for that first year with 33 admissions. All patients had to pay fees with the total revenue of £55 9s. 3d. from out-patients, £42 14s. 6d. from in-patients, making a total of £98 3s. 9d in 1875-1876. In that first year it was reported that there were no deaths.[4]

By 1886, the year after the Samaritan Hospital for Women opened, the Annual Reports were referring to expenses exceeding income even though patients were reporting coming from as far as Leicester and Derby. The out-patient department had 697 patients with 3,975 attendances and 75 in-patients.[5]

The buildings were grade-II listed on 11 August 1952[6] and housed the Radio Trent and Trent FM from 1975 to 2007.[7] Following an investment of over £5m and 2 years of work, NGY myplace opened on 10 April 2012 offering a range of services for young people including a fitness suite, recording studio, counselling and health services.[8]

29-31 Castle Gate is reputedly haunted by several ghosts including a woman resembling a matron, an elderly woman dressed in black, a man in military uniform, young officers of the cavalry regiment and a soldier riding a white horse through the stairwells. In the 1990s, whilst Trent FM broadcast it was reported that the heavy soundproof doors would open and close themselves.[9][10]

References

  1. ↑ The Hospital for Women at Nottingham, The Week, Br Med J 1875;2:496
  2. ↑ Records of Nottingham Hospital for Women, held at Manuscripts and Special Collections, The University of Nottingham
  3. ↑ Hospital Records, National Archives
  4. 1 2 Nottingham Hospital for Women, Nottinghamshire Guardian (London, England), Friday, October 20, 1876; pg. 3; Issue 1630.
  5. ↑ Nottingham Hospital for Women,Nottinghamshire Guardian (London, England), Friday, February 19, 1886; pg. 2; Issue 2126.
  6. ↑ English Heritage Listed Building database, List entry Number: 1271438
  7. ↑ Former Radio Trent building starts new life as youth centre, BBC, 10 April 2012
  8. ↑ NGY myplace Project, Nottingham Youth website
  9. ↑ Paranormal Database
  10. ↑ The ghostly truth about 29-31 Castle Gate, Nottingham, Keiron Batchelor, 19 April 2010

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