When was medway hospital built

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Live News. Kent Travel News. News alerts Sign me up for news alerts. By Matt Leclere. Read all comments. Published: , 12 October Updated: , 12 October The Naval Hospital in Gillingham now Medway Maritime Hospital has undergone some serious changes Whatever your view on the political scale of the health debate, there is no doubt about how the hospitals of Kent have changed and grown.

Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham Originally built as part of the Napoleonic era fortification overlooking Chatham and the River Medway it was used by the army until It opened in and served as a military hospital throughout the Victorian period. The Fort Pitt Military Hospital new ward competed in The site was used throughout the First World War before being sold in to the school which is now Fort Pitt Grammar for Girls Demolition of the old military hospital to make way for the school which moved there in Picture: Medway Archives Queen Victoria visited soldiers there three times during the Crimean War and it was selected by Florence Nightingale in to become the Army Medical School, which moved to Netley near Southampton some three years later.

The all-girls school was granted grammar status in Fort Pitt Grammar School is now on the site of the old hospital St Bart's Hospital, Rochester A hospital of sorts has been recorded at this site since when it was initially established to care for lepers and the poor.

Seafront pub to become restaurant and cocktail bar 3. Teen collapses outside hotel with multiple stab wounds Tesco blocks Aldi from opening new Kent store Every nibble helps The total bed strength is about 70 with 2 general wards, single rooms, deluxe rooms, super deluxe rooms, and a well-equipped emergency room and ICU. Nearby in Trustpuram, another 50 bedded facility is also functioning as a specialty hospital.

A bedded facility was opened in Kumbakonam in and has fast acquired a reputation for high-quality affordable healthcare. Every member of our staff plays a key role in achieving excellence and we all endeavor to go the extra mile for our patients. We choose customer oriented staff through robust recruitment processes, induction, training and feedback. As the arms race quickened and the fleet expanded at the turn of the 20th century, the hospital needed to expand and Windmill Hill was chosen as the site.

The main corridor of the hospital, designed by I. Murray, was more than 1,ft long and the whole site covered 39 acres. The staff comprised nine medical officers, one head wardmaster, seven sisters and 70 sick berth ratings. Freddie Cooper, sage of Gillingham and former mayor of that borough — sadly no longer with us — wrote to the Medway News in with his reminiscences of the old naval hospital.

Some of us looked forward to being chosen for the fixture against the staff of the Royal Naval Hospital because it was played on a ground roughly in the centre where some of the car parks are now with probably the only marl [well looked-after] wicket in the area.

My grandfather had promised me a bat when I scored 50 but when I wrote to him, he still told me that I needed to score 50 which I did not accomplish before he died. Here again labour was in abundance at a time when there was a great deal of unemployment.

I think by then the RN Hospital was closing and I visited a lonely patient who seemed to be the last one left. I recall the long centre corridor with wards off each side. I cannot believe that the present site will be adequate much longer if population increases as expected.

By the end of the 19th century, Medway needed a new hospital to care for the growing number of naval and dockyard staff. The new naval hospital was built in Gillingham at the top of Windmill Hill. It was a military hospital until when it was taken over by the Ministry of Health and renamed Medway Hospital. As the amount of workers grew, it became clear that Melville Hospital in Chatham was too small.