Ross Cottage Hospital

[brianz]

Hi
    Does anyone have any information about the Ross Cottage Hospital. I have a Jane Eunice Willson b 1877 Lambeth London  who is shown as "being " there on the 1901 census as a Nurse and then on the 1911 census as a Nurse Matron.

Does anyone know if any records exist of the people that worked there and when.The hospital opened I think in the 1870's and closed in the late 1940's

Thanks Steve

 

[Pastmagic]

http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/htt/637.aspx
Ross Cottage Hospital (SMR 19927)

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=388&page=49
Records are at the Herts record office, according to NA

Ross Cottage Hospital and Dispensary opened in 1872 in New Street, with a female ward, a male ward, an operating theatre and a room for emergencies. Facilities were soon inadequate, and in September 1879 it moved to a new building in Gloucester Road. Extensions were added in 1887 and 1897. Its name was changed to Ross Cottage Hospital in 1940, as the dispensary had gone out of use. The hospital closed in 1997, as a new hospital had been built on the site of the old one (see SMR 19841).

It was still open in 1959 as per this obit of a local GP who died there:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1990343/pdf/brmedj02937-0092b.pdf

Not sure this is the correct building, but in case it is:
http://www.ross-on-wye.com/index.php?page=ross_510-Gloucester_Road&pg=1
Pm

[brianz]

Thanks Pastmagic  I'll have a look through these