understanding a birth certificate

[pompey welsh]

Hi, can someone help me with understanding a birth cert please, I have when and where born as union workhouse , where it says name and maiden surname of mother , i have Sarah Ford formally turner of 51 high street, bow, then where the signature and residence of informant is, it says Sarah Ford, mother, union workhouse poplar. I dont understand the 2 places of residence, was the workhouse used as a hospital in 1899?. Thank you

[BumbleB]

In a word - Yes. 

[jonw65]

Poplar Workhouse Baptisms, 8 April 1899 (also on ancestry)
William Charles Turner, parents Thomas + Sarah
Abode 51 High St. Bow
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSRK-MSH8-1

Creed Registers, faded images (should also be on ancestry)
Thomas Ford, Sarah Ford, John Ford, admitted 30 Nov 1898
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSRG-TSGF-9

Thomas Ford went to sick asylum same day
John Ford discharged 8 Dec 1898, to Forest Gate School

Thomas Ford back on 12 January 1899. Discharged 23 January, without family
Another admission for Thomas on 25 January, to Sick Asylum

17 March, birth of Wm Charles noted (under Joseph Franklin entry)
29 March, Thomas Ford back from Sick Asylum
7 April, John Ford back from Forest Gate School
All three discharged 10 April 1899
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSRG-TSGZ-7

[AntonyMMM]

The address under the mother's name should be her usual address on the date of the birth - that in the informant column is where she was living on the date of registration.

[pompey welsh]

Thank you very much, I find the whole workhouse thing really confusing, I had previously found a pile of in and outs for their daughter Ethel, over a 2/3 year period, with them at the Lambeth workhouse but can somebody tell me.....would they of been homeless, would they literally have been dismissed/requested to leave and slept on the streets??? does anyone know? also because Ethel wasn't with them in the records you've just helped me with, do you think that she had died or where could she be? Again thank you for help.

[KGarrad]

Have a look at www.workhouses.org.uk - it's the "go-to" website for workhouse info.
Also bear in mind that most workhouses had an infirmary attached. It's where people without money went for medical needs.

Page for Lambeth: http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Lambeth/

[manukarik]

This discussion refers to people accessing hospital treatment in Work Houses and fits in with the discussion here.

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=780303.0

[pompey welsh]

Thank you, I will have a good look.

[jonw65]

Ethel wasn't with them in the records you've just helped me with, do you think that she had died or where could she be?

John and Ethel Ford left the Mint Street workhouse in Southwark, 14 January 1896.
That was a transfer to the workhouse at Newington
Newington admission register has John Ford born 12.5.92, Ethel Ford born 30.3.94
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS1Y-69QK-R

John was discharged on 16 January, To Parents (image 338)
Ethel was discharged the following day, Champion Hill
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS1Y-693S-Y

Champion Hill was the Southwark Union Infirmary in Dulwich.
I'm not sure if she came back from there.
There is a death in the relevant district
March 1896 Camberwell 1d 496
Ford, Ethel   
age 1   

A burial at Brookwood Cemetery, 7 Feb 1896
Ethel Ford, age 1
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG8Z-GKNF

So, sadly, that might be her.
John