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Description: | View of the four wooden wards and the entrance from Anstey Road.. On 26th October 1927 the Alton Board of Guardians who administered the nearby Workhouse officially opened a new Infirmary in Anstey Road. Prior to the Second World War the Ministry of Health built an emergency hospital of four wooden wards on the site, in front of the Workhouse. Handed over to the Canadian Army during the war, it later came under the control of the National Health Service when it was set up in 1948. However in 1962 the Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital took over as the main hospital and although the General Hospital retained a Maternity Unit and an Out Patients Department its task was now to care for the geriatric and chronically sick cases. The site was later sold off and demolished and now houses the Health Centre and a sheltered housing scheme managed by Brendoncare. See the Alton Gazette 28th October 1927 for an article with photographs on the opening of the hospital.
Hawkins, C W. 1973. The Story of Alton. Pages 123 - 130, the hospitals and medical services. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Margaret Smith | Subjects: | building Brendoncare Alton Board of Guardians Canadian Army Alton General Hospital hospital infirmary | Temporal: | start=1983-01-01; end=1983-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Margaret Smith | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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