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Old 21-11-2018, 02:11 PM
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The only references I have come across are from the 1870s when the hospital was moving from the Poor Guardians to the Rural Sanitary Authority. The Alnwick Mercury of 16 March 1872 described a report made to the Board of Guardians with a floor plan annexed (unfortunately not reproduced in the newspaper). The upper storey had two wards with good sized windows looking west. It described the situation of the hospital: the road on the west side is the public road from Warkworth, but the house is nearly the first at that side of the village; the building is not surrounded by houses, ad except for the public house, there is none within 25 yards of the hospital, and a stable and courtyard divide the hospital from the pub. The two wards are large enough for number of patients likely to need them and there were none when the Board visited. The rooms are very clean and ceilings low. Patients landed from ships did not need to be taken through Amble but could be landed on the Warkworth side close to the hospital if the tide was right, or a few hundred yards away if the tide was out. Several recommendations were made for improvements which were supported.
An earlier report from 1872 suggests that the hospital had been originally intended only for sailors coming ill off the ships, it had subsequently been used for outbreaks of fever within Amble.

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