Government-controlled hospitals which represent the major health facility for a designated geographic area

Handy book of cottage hospitals / Horace Swete.

Cottage hospitals, general, fever and convalescent : their progress, management and work in Great Britain and Ireland, and the United States of America : with an alphabetical list of every cottage hospital at present opened : many plans and illustrations including a portrait of Albert Napper / by Henry C. Burdett.

32 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 13 x 18 cm

A history of Lydney & District Hospital / by R.A.J. Bell.

Mrs Isabella Elder, LL.D., pioneer and philanthropist / C. Joan McAlpine.

43 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm

Coldstream Cottage Hospital : one hundred years / by Brian Sproule.

xix, 348 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, forms, plans ; 19 cm

Cottage hospitals, general, fever, and convalescent : their progress, management, and work in Great Britain and Ireland, and the United States of America, with an alphabetical list of cottage hospitals / by Sir Henry Burdett.

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A history of Lydney & District Hospital / by R.A.J. Bell.

Mrs Isabella Elder, LL.D., pioneer and philanthropist / C. Joan McAlpine.

Coldstream Cottage Hospital : one hundred years / by Brian Sproule.

Cottage hospitals, general, fever, and convalescent : their progress, management, and work in Great Britain and Ireland, and the United States of America, with an alphabetical list of cottage hospitals / by Sir Henry Burdett.

Handy book of cottage hospitals / Horace Swete.