Obstetrical Work in a Cottage Hospital

The First Cottage Hospital

The evolution of the cottage hospital.

IN THIS essay I have endeavoured to outline the trends in medical practice which led to the formation of the cottage hospital. The cottage hospital was something special, quite different from the other types of hospital. To understand these differences it has been necessary to mention the way other kinds of hospitals developed. The influence of these new hospitals on general practice in the nin...

Hospital Acquired Obstetrical Infections

Some enlightened members of the general public appear to possess clearer comprehension concerning the forfeited responsibility of the medical profession for this state of affairs than many physicians. Kimberly Bergalis, a young woman who contracted AIDS from her infected dentist [6], had denounced the entire medical profession for her tragic fate before she died: -“I blame all of you...You bast...

A cottage hospital grows up: the story of the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead

E J Dennison was a GP at the Queen Victoria Hospital from 1938 to 1977 and is similarly devoted to its history. This updated version of his book, first published in 1963, provides an institutional account of an unusual hospital with several histories. A cottage hospital existed at East Grinstead from 1863 to 1874. From 1888 a new hospital developed, via two relocations, into a modest 36 bed fac...

The centenary of Ivy Cottage, Belfast City Hospital.

Pregnant women have been delivered in the Belfast City Hospital since 1842. These first patients were destitute inmates of the Workhouse. Over a number of years many reports of maternal deaths due to puerperal sepsis had been presented to the Board of Governors. At a meeting in August 1892 the members agreed to build a new hospital for maternity patients. This unit consisted of three wards, eac...