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Description: | School would normally be held outdoors or in the Summer school but during winter, classes were held indoors in what would become later the Pharmacy. Designed to provide treatment for the wounded of the Boer War the Princes Louise Hospital was started on its Chawton Park Road site in 1900 but the war was over before it was finished. It became a Royal Army Medical Corps unit from 1903 until 1905 and was eventually purchased in 1907 by Sir William Purdie Treloar as a site for his hospital for children suffering from tuberculous disease of the bones and joints. The hospital became officially known as the Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples Home and College. The first patients arrived in 1908 and the hospital sought not only to cure crippled children but also to teach older boys a skilled craft. Sir Henry Gauvain became the medical superintendent in the same year. The hospital soon became famous for its treatment consisting of fresh air, sunlight and exercise and for its regime of training, treatment and involving the children in useful work around the grounds and on the farm. The hospital published a set of postcards showing aspects of life around the site, both indoors and outdoors. With the coming of the National Health Service the hospital was taken over in 1948 and later became world famous for its treatment of orthopaedic cases. The Treloar Hospital trustees needed a new site for their work and in 1953 the Treloar college for physically handicapped boys was opened at Froyle and in 1965 the Florence Treloar School for girls was opened at Holybourne. The original Hospital site in Chawton Park Road has been sold and the buildings demolished and while part of the site is occupied by the Community Hospital, the rest has been given over to housing.
Moynihan, G S E. 1988. The Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital and College. 0861460723.
Copy photograph of a photograph. | 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: | Hampshire Library and Information Service - Hampshire County Council | Subjects: | Sir Henry Gauvain building Princess Louise Treloar Hospital Lord Mayor Treloar College college Treloar, Sir William Purdie, Treloar, Florence Royal Army Medical Corps Princess Louise Hospital Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples Hospital and College Florence Treloar School school room Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital hospital | Temporal: | start=1908-01-01; end=1940-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Copied by: Dine, Derek; Hampshire County Library; 1970s | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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