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The Liverpool Maternity Hospital was established as the Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary for the Diseases of Women and Children in Horatio Street, Scotland Road,
Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a populat ...
, in November 1841. It was replaced by the Liverpool Women's Hospital in November 1995.


History

The hospital was established as the Lying-in Hospital and Dispensary for the Diseases of Women and Children in Horatio Street, Scotland Road, Liverpool, in November 1841. It moved to Pembroke Place in 1845 and to Myrtle Street in 1862 and, having become the Ladies Charity and Lying-In Hospital in 1869, it moved to new purpose-built facilities in Brownlow Street in 1885. A foundation stone for a new facility in Oxford Street was laid by the Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles in March 1924 and it was officially opened by Christiana Hartley, the social and welfare rights activist, as the Liverpool Maternity Hospital in September 1926. Famous people born in the hospital included
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who was born there in October 1940. It joined the
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in 1948. The
Walton sextuplets The Walton sextuplets were born at Liverpool Maternity Hospital in Liverpool, England on 18 November 1983 and were the world's first all-female surviving sextuplets, and the world's fourth known set of surviving sextuplets. The children are Hanna ...
were born to Graham and Janet (née Leadbetter) Walton at the hospital in November 1983. After services transferred to the Liverpool Women's Hospital, the Liverpool Maternity Hospital closed in November 1995 and has since been converted into student accommodation.


Notable staff

Notable staff include: * Ethel Mary Cauty, OBE (1872-1962) Matron, 1907- 1938.Rogers, Sarah (2022). 'A Maker of Matrons’? A study of Eva Lückes’s influence on a generation of nurse leaders:1880–1919' (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Huddersfield, April 2022) During her thirty one year matronship the hospital increased dramatically in size - from 21 beds to 100, with over 2500 deliveries per annum by 1938. She was well regarded by the nursing staff and was renowned for her devotion to the mothers and babies. Cauty trained at The London Hospital, under Matron
Eva Luckes Eva Charlotte Ellis Luckes (8 July 1854 – 16 February 1919) was Matron of The London Hospital from 1880 to 1919. Early life Eva Abigail Charlotte Ellis Luckes (she herself spelled her name Lückes with the umlaut) was born in Exeter, Dev ...
. After which she trained as a midwife at York Road Lying in Hospital, London. She was a founder member of the College of Nursing, later the
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.


References

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