Annual report of Alexandra Hospital for Children with Hip Disease : 1942.

  • Alexandra Hospital for Children with Hip Disease (London, England)
Date:
1942
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report of Alexandra Hospital for Children with Hip Disease : 1942. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Just before the end of the century the four old houses, built during the reign of Queen Anne, which formed the Hospital, needed such continual and expensive repairs that it was decided to erect an entirely new building in their place. This was done, and on the 20th July, 1899, a new Hospital, a photograph of which appears opposite this page, was opened by Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and Princess Victoria. In these premises the work of the Hospital was carried on for twenty-one years, until the close of 1920, when it was decided that the children would do better in the country. The building in Queen Square was therefore sold, and by an agreement with St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, sanctioned by the Charity Commissioners, the Kettlewell Convalescent Home at Swanley, no longer used for its original purpose, was placed at the disposal of the patients of the Alexandra Hospital. Here the Hospital remained until, as is mentioned on another page, it was transferred in June, 1940, to Stockwood Park, Luton, for the duration of the war. During the seventy-six years the Hospital has been in existence it has had three convalescent homes. The first one was at Bourne¬ mouth, which was opened in 1874, and subsequently in 1882 named the Helen Branch by permission of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Albany. This Branch was closed in 1893, and in the same year another was opened at Painswick, in Gloucestershire, which was continued until 1914, when it had to be closed on account of the outbreak of the war. The third convalescent home of the Hospital was the one at East Clandon, which was opened in 1903, and closed in December, 1936.