St Elizabeth’s Hospital
Hospital de Santa Isabel
Sé · Funchal
Municipality of Funchal, Madeira
Approximate location
The Misericórdia's hospital in Funchal, begun after 1686, which gave its name to the Rua do Hospital Velho. It was used for 240 years and sold to the Junta Geral in 1933. It was criticised in an 1874 pamphlet, and its regulations were printed in 1819 and 1840.
1Mentioned in
- Misericórdias — Old hospital building used for 240 years, sold to the Junta Geral in 1933.
- Misericórdias — The Misericórdia's hospital, the subject of many of the listed publications.
- Angústias (cemetery) — Hospital whose dead were buried in the 1818 cemetery.
- Garcia Ramos (Acursio) — Misericórdia hospital criticised in his 1874 pamphlet.
- Hospital Velho (street) — Hospital that stood in the street for many years, giving it its name.
- Marmeleiros Hospital — The Misericórdia's hospital, whose old building later housed the Junta Geral.
- Oliveira (Dr João Francisco de) — Funchal hospital to which Oliveira attached a free class in surgery.
- Luís (Infante Dom) — Hospital visited by the prince.
- Leiria (Júlio Augusto) — Subject of a pamphlet he answered in 1874.
- Old Funchal — Begun after 1686.
- Statutes — Funchal hospital whose regulations were printed in 1819 and 1840.
- Rodrigues Ciebra (António) — Hospital in Funchal where Ciebra worked as surgeon.
- The English — Housed the British Infirmary, later the Medical-Surgical School.
- Governing Junta of Madeira in 1847 — In its courtyard the junta was proclaimed.
- Teixeira (Dr João Augusto) — Hospital where Teixeira directed the medical wards.
- Medical-Surgical School — Misericórdia hospital to which the school was attached.
- Henriques (Dr Luiz) — Hospital where Henriques was chief surgeon.
- Administrative autonomy — Its old buildings have housed the Junta Geral offices since October 1933.
2Chronology
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The Santa Isabel hospital in Funchal was begun after this year.
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The Misericórdia approved regulations for the Hospital Real de Santa Isabel, creating a medical-surgical class; they were printed in 1820.
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Bishop D. Joaquim de Meneses e Ataíde built a small cemetery for the Santa Isabel hospital.
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Regulations of the Hospital Real de Santa Isabel of Funchal were printed in Lisbon and confirmed by royal provision on 19 October 1819.
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The Medical-Surgical School of Funchal was installed on 2 May 1837 at the Santa Isabel hospital, replacing the former British Infirmary; it operated until 1910.
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Acúrsio Garcia Ramos published a pamphlet on the hygiene of the Santa Isabel hospital in Funchal, which drew replies from Júlio Augusto Leiria and Francisco Clementino de Sousa.
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All hospital services moved from Santa Isabel to Marmeleiros, and the hospital took the name Hospital dos Marmeleiros.
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The Santa Isabel hospital building was sold to the Junta Geral for 1,500 contos.
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The Junta Geral offices were installed in the old Hospital de Santa Isabel buildings.