| AdminHistory | The Birmingham Pension Hospital Committee was established in February 1919. The committee consisted of representatives from the Council, owners and trustees from Uffculme and Highbury Houses, the Red Cross, Order of St John, honorary surgeons and physicians and ‘persons with experience of management of Civil Hospitals in the City’. Its purpose was to manage the sanatoriums at Highbury, Uffculme, Sorrento and the Orthopaedic Out-Patient Clinic at Broad Street for the provision of hospital accommodation for war pensioners, and managed the staff, buildings and equipment. By 1932, all the hospitals had been closed down, the last being Highbury in the January that year, after which the committee was disbanded. |