Royal Cornwall Infirmary

Royal Cornwall Infirmary
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
Royal Cornwall Infirmary
Shown in Cornwall
Geography
Location Truro, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates 50°15′22″N 5°03′18″W / 50.2562°N 5.0549°W / 50.2562; -5.0549Coordinates: 50°15′22″N 5°03′18″W / 50.2562°N 5.0549°W / 50.2562; -5.0549
Organisation
Care system Public NHS
Hospital type Teaching
History
Founded 1799
Closed 1999
Links
Lists Hospitals in England

Royal Cornwall Infirmary was a hospital in the south of the centre of Truro, Cornwall.

History

The Royal Cornwall Infirmary was designed by William Wood[1] and paid for by King George IV.[2] It had just 20 beds[2] when it opened on 12 August 1799.[1] It was the first of its kind in Cornwall and was designed to service the mining community.[3]

During the First World War it provided 50 beds to the War Office for serious medical cases from the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.[1] It joined the National Health Service in 1947.[1] After expanding to provide 180 beds in 1939,[4] it was badly damaged by 500kg bombs and by machine gun fire on 6 August 1942 during the Second World War.[2][5]

Services were transferred from the Infirmary to the Royal Cornwall Hospital at Treliske in the mid-1990s. The infirmary closed down in 1999, and has since been redeveloped with housing.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "The Royal Cornwall Infirmary during the First World War". Royal Cornwall Museum. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 "How Truro's first hospital was opened in 1799 with just 20 beds and was bombed during WWII". Cornwall Live. 8 July 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  3. ↑ Polsue, Joseph (1868). "History of Cornwall". A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall: Compiled from the Best Authorities & Corrected and Improved from Actual Survey. W. Lake. p. 333.
  4. ↑ "Royal Cornwall Infirmary". Cornishman. 7 December 1939. p. 9. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
  5. ↑ Holmes, Lawrence. "The tragic Truro raid of 6 August 1942" (PDF). Retrieved 11 September 2018.
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