Index to volume 3 of the minutes and reports of the Army Hospitals Committee : meetings 41 to 50, minutes 468 to 581 21st September 1905 to 15th February 1906.
- Great Britain. Army Hospitals Committee.
- Date:
- 1906
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Credit: Index to volume 3 of the minutes and reports of the Army Hospitals Committee : meetings 41 to 50, minutes 468 to 581 21st September 1905 to 15th February 1906. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![SOUTHERN COMMAND. Portsmouth.—The new hospital (The Alexandra Hospital) has been principally built out of funds provided by the Admiralty on the taking over by that Department of the Portsmouth Hospital. The estimated total cost is 116,0001., of which 16,0001. is on B.A.E., Part I. (10,0007. in 1905-6). Hilsea.—At this hospital the sanitary blocks will require remodelling, with the addition of a treatment block. Gosport Hospital, with its 180 beds, will be given up, a reception station being retained, Parkhurst.—Here the beds are much in excess of requirements, and the building, which was originally a substantial dwelling-house, though adaptable for a hospital, will demand extensive remodelling, e.g., modern annexes, additional windows, new staircases, and stairways of escape from fire. Winchester.—tThe old building has been emphatically condemned, and a new and excellent site on the outskirts of the town secured on lease, with option of purcliase. Plans are in course of preparation; 45,000/. is included for the service in M.W.L. programme. Devonport.—A scheme has been approved for remodelling the present hospital, which by various reappropriations provides all needed accommodation, including quarters for the increased female nursing staff. Falmouth.—At this station the existing hospital may be given up, and a reception station can be contrived by reappropriation of married quarters in the castle. Devizes.—The beds at this hospital, though somewhat fewer than scale requirements, will suffice. The hospital itself can be brought up to date at a moderate expense. Oxford.—The present hut will suffice for venereal cases, and the main building for medical and surgical cases, with the addition of an operation theatre. The infectious block will serve for itch cases. Tid worth.—The plans for this hospital, already approved, provide for 230 beds, including a special ward with cubicle arrangement for officers. An infectious hospital and a nursing home are also to be constructed close to the main hospital on an excellent site approved by the Army Sanitary and Army Hospitals Committees, and originally designed for the R.K. barracks. It was at one time intended to construct a hospital at Tidworth of 596 beds, and another at Bulford, the sums of 100,000/. and 54,0001. respectively being included in M.W.L. for these services. It will be seen that under the Committee’s proposals the beds at Tidworth have been very materially reduced, and some considerable economy should be effected by utilising the hut hospital at . Bulford so far as available for venereal cases, the administrative and treatment blocks being built in permanent materials. 135,000/. has been included in the Committee’s M.W.L. proposals, which it is hoped will cover the cost of the hospital at Tidworth, together with infectious and families hospitals. Bulford.—oOf ihe 18 huts containing 236 beds, 12 of Doecker type have been condemned for occupation after the warm weather vf the present year. The other huts—96 beds--are in good condition, and when the administrative section has been provided for in a new block, the huts thus set at liberty will provide the balance of beds required (28), with needed accommodation for the R.A.M.C. The new buildings will comprise, in addition to the administrative block, a kitchen, bath-rooms, and treatment rooms for gonorrhoea and syphilis. Warwick.—It is not proposed to extend the accommodation at Warwick by the eight beds required by scale, as it is believed that any serious cases in excess of accommodation will be more cheaply treated in the civil hospital. The infectious block will be available for itch cases. The Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley (87] beds) will remain for the reception of soldiers invalided from abroad, and no alteration is suggested in the number of beds. Very important improvements have recently been effected at this hospital, including the provision of excellent quarters for the Nursing Staff, but never- theless, much remains to be done in the way of radical structural alterations to bring the wards up to the level of modern requirements, and the Director of Barrack Construction is of opinion that the cost should be estimated at not less than 250,0001. C 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32181930_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
