[1] A report in 1805 by churchwarden Henderson revealed that of 1600 paupers housed in the workhouse and nearby almshouses, only 20 were able-bodied men, with 437 unable to work due to sickness or infirmity.

[1] The workhouse was expanded (effectively rebuilt) in the 1840s (to designs by architects Henry Lockwood and Thomas Allom),[2] with a chapel erected in 1855 and a hospital 'for the reception of poor persons suffering from infectious diseases' added in 1863.

[3] Liverpool philanthropist William Rathbone obtained permission from the Liverpool Vestry to introduce trained nurses (at his own expense for three years) at the workhouse hospital in 1864, and invited Agnes Jones, then at the London Great Northern Hospital, to be the first trained Nursing Superintendent in 1865.

This initial group were supplemented by further probationers and 54 able-bodied female inmates who were paid a small salary.

Acquired by the Roman Catholic church, the workhouse was demolished in 1931[2] and the site is today occupied by the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.