Historic Background
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
.
