Liverpool Hospitals - John Bagot Hospital

 

The John Bagot Hospital started life as the Netherfield Home for Infectious Diseases situated at Netherfield House, and was also called the Fever Hospital. Also known as the City Hospital Infectious Diseases Free Hospital, it was established in 1858 in Netherfield Road North and was a private hospital. It then became owned by Liverpool Council which, up until the opening of Fazakerly Hospital, was the only hospital that admitted patients with infectious diseases other than the workhouse infirmaries and Park Hill. The red bricked John Bagot Fever Hospital on Netherfield Road North stood between Havelock and Mitford Street.

 

The streets opposite the old fever hospital included Conway, Gordon, Elias, Buckingham and Howe Street. On the other side of the road, the hospital stood alongside the very steep Mitford Street.

Netherfield Road North, its old tram lines, with the entrance right to the John Bagot Hospital.

 

It is uncertain whether or not the John Bagot Hospital was directly hit by German bombs during the Blitz, but it is fact that the whole of Everton Ridge and the streets sweeping down towards the docks were hammered at that time, hence the tremendous number of debris areas that many children used as their dirt-covered playgrounds in those years after the war. On the 26th and 27th of October 1940, high explosives rocked Netherfield Road where the John Bagot Hospital stood, demolishing three combined shops and dwelling houses and damaging 30 other homes. Four public houses were hit and 16 people trapped with fire greatly impeding rescue work. It is likely that the hospital suffered collateral damage. The John Bagot survived until 25 February 1974 when it was finally demolished, with Everton losing another famous landmark.

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