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Westminster Memorial Hospital
The Westminster Memorial Hospital is a small community hospital in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England. It provides about 20 in-patient beds, a minor injuries department, a range of out-patient clinics and other support services. It opened in 1874.
==History==
In 1871, some 2 years after the death of Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster his wife, Lady Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, and one daughter gave a plot of land for the construction of a hospital in her husband’s memory. He had long connections with Shaftesbury, owning much property in the vicinity. The family lived in Motcombe for part of the year and the Marquess died in the new Fonthill Abbey, Fonthill Gifford, some 10 miles from Shaftesbury. The foundation stone was laid in May, 1871 by Lady Theodora Grosvenor. Three years later the hospital was inaugurated by George Moberly, Bishop of Salisbury. The design of the building was by JB Corby of Stamford, Lincolnshire and the hospital was constructed by a Shaftesbury man, Mr CJ Miles.
The funding of the hospital’s six beds in its early days was through subscribers (a guinea annually or a lifetime payment of £20), patients were subject to a modest fee and there was a small income from an endowment fund provided by the Grosvenor family. No parish poor were admitted but instead were cared for in the local workhouse infirmary. Local family doctors provided medical cover with a matron managing the nursing staff. In 1907 the first major addition to the hospital was a small operating theatre. This was funded by Lady Theodora in memory of her mother, deceased some 16 years previously. The local doctors had suggested the theatre and it was built as an extension on the west side of the hospital with a double lantern roof to admit full light. Further development followed with central heating installed in 1909 and an X-ray facility, after some delay, in 1919.〔 To assist with the funding of the hospital the Shaftesbury Carnival Committee donated money from the annual carnival. In 1924 there was a meeting with representatives of the Salisbury Infirmary regarding affiliation. 1928 saw the inauguration of the Hospital League, an adjunct organisation to which subscribers paid to qualify for treatment at the hospital.〔 In 1930 a major enlargement to the hospital was opened by Lord Evelyn Seymour and his wife Lady Edith Seymour, the Duchess of Somerset, this provided more bed space and accommodation for staff. The out-patients department was added in 1938(dorset life)and this year there was an agreement to join the Salisbury Hospital Group.〔 In 1948 Castle Hill House was purchased and converted into a small maternity unit which was managed by the Matron from the WMH and local doctors. It functioned until the early 1980s when it closed and was later sold.〔
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