HOSPITAL NO ONE USES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22084, 14 October 1933, Page 5

HOSPITAL NO ONE USES

ONE PATIENT IN-50 YEAES.;;, Recently was celebrated at Suttotf Bridge, Lincolnshire; England, the fiftieth' anniversary oif the strangest 'hospital. m Britain. . ’ , .. During the whole halLcentury' of-iW existence it has had only one..patient—• and he died, , A. v,''-. The Post. Hospital was officially., .opened by W. M. Rust, Mayor of. Wisbechy-on August 22, 1883. ■ , , Miss Burton, the, nurse, is-, still, in. av tendance, and a doctor visits, the hospital periodically. .. ■ : The wards are spotlessly clean, and.tn« beds, lockers, and tables: are, in r6adine«« for emergencies. . In the kitchen there are cupboards '.full of crockery which has never . been need, and the. dispensary would be g credit, to anv London hospital..’ . ... It is a typical .hospital excepting,,that f theregare no patients. : -,g “ The hospital was originally ! opened for the benefit of seamen?.’. Miss Burton told me, “and the only patient"wild‘ha* received attention here was ah Itahaß sailor, who died., „ “ I do not think the Wisbech Corpora.- . t'iou has any' intention, of elosihg the- place down.” . .. . .. .