Author: HOSPITAL
Title: West Cornwall Dispensary and Infirmary.
Description: Penzance, 1886. Folded sheet, opening to 205 x 250 mm, acknowledgement of subscription. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts. Canon John Richard Shortland [1814 - 1889?] was the Roman Catholic priest for St. Mary's in Penzance from 1858 - 1889 and a man of some personal means who gradually replaced the furnishings of his church which had earlier been sold to settle debts. Originally established in 1809 as the Penzance Public Dispensary and Humane Society in Market Jew Street, the hospital later moved to Chapel Street in 1813 and to a second Chapel Street site in 1823. Then in 1873, after a move to the site of an old workhouse and prison in St Clare Street, it became known as the West Cornwall Dispensary and Infirmary. The hospital was re-built on that site in 1906, and in 1929 was renamed The West Cornwall Hospital.

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