Two pavilions for the accommodation of consumptives were erected at the Keighley Union Infirmary – later St John’s Hospital – in 1904
THESE two pavilions for the accommodation of consumptives were erected at the Keighley Union Infirmary – later St John’s Hospital – in 1904, during a period of expansion which included new convalescent, infirm and female imbecile blocks and steam cooking apparatus.
Administered by the Keighley Board of Guardians in conjunction with the Workhouse in Oakworth Road, the Infirmary took in some sad but interesting patients. Here, for example, in 1904 died “Old Sergeant” Thomas Callaghan.
A veteran of the Royal Marine Artillery, he had served in the trenches before Sebastopol during the Crimean War, and in the Indian Mutiny and the Chinese War. He had pawned his medals and spent the last ten of his 74 years in the Workhouse.
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