Jarrow, Pine Street, Mayfield

HER Number:
16487

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Jarrow, Pine Street, Mayfield

Place:
Jarrow

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Health and Welfare

Site Type: Broad:
Hospital

Site Type: Specific:
Auxiliary Hospital

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Mayfield was used as an auxiliary hospital during the First World War by the Joint War Committee (British Red Cross and the Order of St John of Jerusalem). The committee was ordered to raise and organise Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs) trained in First Aid and Nursing. The nurses were a mixture of qualified nurses and volunteers (mostly middle-class women). Many hospitals were set up in large houses on loan to the Red Cross during the war. VAD hospitals received the sum of 3 shillings per day per patient from the War Office. Mayfield was run by the 10th Durham VA Hospital Unit. Mayfield was demolished in the 1970s. Honours for service to this hospital were received by: Mrs Lorna Chittleburgh (Sister) - Royal Red Cross 2nd Class and Miss Isabella Scott (Commandant) - MBE.

Easting:
322

Northing:
649

Grid Reference:
NZ322649

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
www.donmouth.co.uk/local_history/VAD/VAD_hospitals.html (accessed 2014); British Red Cross, 2014, List of Auxiliary Hospitals in the UK during the First World War