Monmouth Hospital

Monmouth Hospital was a hospital founded in 1868 in Monmouth, Wales, relocated in 1903 to Hereford Road in that town, and closed on 12 May 2006, when services transferred to the Monnow Vale Health and Social Care Centre at Drybridge Park. HistoryA Dispensary was first located at Little Castle House, Castle Hill, in 1810. It was founded to provide free advice and medicine for the poor, and to encourage vaccination. The support and financing was largely from donations, concerts, fees and exhibitions. Three doctors were appointment annually after a table of their kills and cures had been examined. The dispensary had an income of around £200 annually and dispensed around £160 worth of medicine each year. Monmouth Hospital and Dispensary was opened at Cartref, St James' Square, in 1868 with nine beds. Lord Llangattock covered the cost of 'The Hendre Bed' in perpetuity The equipment may have been inadequate as an appeal for rags and wound dressings went out in 1872. Around 1840, letters started to appear in the Monmouthshire Beacon advocating a General Hospital for Monmouth. The lack of an operating room and difficult stairs in the dispensary were proving a problem. Calls for an isolation hospital were often printed in the paper following each outbreak of cholera including a bad outbreak in 1849 confined the Union workhouse on Hereford road where 16 people died. Eventually Lord Llangattock presented the town with the donation of the Carthage Cottages off the Hereford road, near manson lane, for an isolation hospital. This was well received and the Hospital for Infectious diseases existed before closing sometime before the 1960s

Monmouth Hospital was a hospital founded in 1868 in Monmouth, Wales, relocated in 1903 to Hereford Road in that town, and closed on 12 May 2006, when services transferred to the Monnow Vale Health and Social Care Centre at Drybridge Park. HistoryA Dispensary was first located at Little Castle House, Castle Hill, in 1810. It was founded to provide free advice and medicine for the poor, and to encourage vaccination. The support and financing was largely from donations, concerts, fees and exhibitions. Three doctors were appointment annually after a table of their kills and cures had been examined. The dispensary had an income of around £200 annually and dispensed around £160 worth of medicine each year. Monmouth Hospital and Dispensary was opened at Cartref, St James' Square, in 1868 with nine beds. Lord Llangattock covered the cost of 'The Hendre Bed' in perpetuity The equipment may have been inadequate as an appeal for rags and wound dressings went out in 1872. Around 1840, letters started to appear in the Monmouthshire Beacon advocating a General Hospital for Monmouth. The lack of an operating room and difficult stairs in the dispensary were proving a problem. Calls for an isolation hospital were often printed in the paper following each outbreak of cholera including a bad outbreak in 1849 confined the Union workhouse on Hereford road where 16 people died. Eventually Lord Llangattock presented the town with the donation of the Carthage Cottages off the Hereford road, near manson lane, for an isolation hospital. This was well received and the Hospital for Infectious diseases existed before closing sometime before the 1960s