The original Salisbury Infirmary
(© Mark Collyer)

FOUNDED  1766. Now known as Salisbury General Hospital

LOCATION  Fisherton Anger, Salisbury, Wiltshire

BIBLIOGRAPHY  Haskins, Charles (1922): The history of Salisbury Infirmary founded by Anthony, Lord Feversham A.D. 1760, with a foreword by the Earl of Radnor (Salisbury & District Infirmary & Hospital League/Salisbury Times). | Shemilt, P. (1992): Salisbury 200 – Salisbury Infirmary bicentenary review. An updated edition (privately printed)

CENSUS REFERENCES

• 1851: HO 107/1846, folios 466b-469a, pages 1-6

ORIGINAL RECORDS  Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 3QN. Telephone 01249 705500 Website.  Full catalogue listing

ONLINE RESOURCES 

• Voluntary Hospitals Database
• Hospital Records Database
• Admissions and discharges, 1761-1832, Find My Past website (subscription required)
• Salisbury Infirmary patients in the 1850s
• The statutes and rules for the government of the general infirmary at the city of Salisbury, 1767
• The statutes and rules for the government of the general infirmary at the city of Salisbury, 1768
• The statutes and rules for the government of the Salisbury Infirmary, 1827

OTHER MATERIAL

• Salisbury Cholera Victims, 1849 (based on Salisbury Infirmary notebooks, naming many cholera patients), published by the Wiltshire Family History Society
• Salisbury General Infirmary baptism register 1847-1945, microfilm available for loan from local Family History Centres (microfilm reference 1239365)