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Union Infirmary, terms on registers
« on: Sunday 28 April 24 15:28 BST (UK) »
Hi as part of my research I've found the following documents.
Does anyone know the meaning of the abbreviations in the Observations columns. And, was Champion Hill a place for people with poor mental health?
Eddie

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Re: Union Infirmary, terms on registers
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 28 April 24 16:34 BST (UK) »
The abbreviations in the Observations column are the individual parishes within the St Saviour's Union to which each pauper was chargeable, e.g.
N - Newington
SG - St George (Southwark)
SS - St Saviour (Southwark).

Champion Hill (in East Dulwich, opened c. 1887) was the Infirmary site for the whole St Saviour's Union, nothing to do with mental health.

See here - scroll down...
https://www.workhouses.org.uk/StSaviour/#Post-1834

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Re: Union Infirmary, terms on registers
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 28 April 24 17:11 BST (UK) »
Thanks for your help, much appreciated. That's obvious now you say it.
My family features a lot in those parishes and others around London.
My Mum, even in 1921, was in the Wandsworth Union.
I thought they may be a level or type of ill health.
Eddie