Occasional Magazine Vol.5 No.3 (September 1938)
The Hospital by Dr. A. E. Sears. The three periods in the history of Milford’s hospital are described. Though no specific records of the first period have survived it is known that the need for one in the village was promoted by Dr. [Robert] Bruce in 1900 and the cost of building was donated by the local benefactor [William] Talbot Agar. It opened [where the High Street merges with Keyhaven Road] with Dr. Bruce as its Hon. Medical Officer, leased to three trustees for 10 shillings a year. Finances eventually became exhausted, Dr. Bruce died in 1917 and the hospital closed in November 1918. The sum of £350 to purchase the freehold was rapidly collected and allowed the hospital to reopen in 1919 as the local Memorial to those who had served and fallen in the Great War. Annual reports from this second period detail developments leading to building a new hospital in Sea Road as the original premises could not be extended and had become medically unsatisfactory. A successful public appeal was launched in February 1928 and the donations and fundraising allowed the new hospital to be opened in May 1930 free of all debt. The improvements made in this third period to date [January 1937] are noted.
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