Woodstock Hospital
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Item Type
- Postcards
- Description
- The original Woodstock General Hospital was opened in 1895 and was situated on a hill on the southwest corner of Brant and Riddell Street in Woodstock, Ontario. The original building, part of which was still in use in 1997, contained a small operating room and thirty patient beds. In the subsequent years additions were added to the hospital such as the West Wing in 1924; the X-ray Department in 1925; and the Children’s Ward in 1935. By 1951 there were fifty-eight doctors in practice and one hundred and nineteen beds in use including twenty-six for children and one in isolation.
In 1954 work began on a new addition to the hospital, which saw most of the original structure torn down and replaced with a new wing facing Riddell Street. This new wing, comprising of a basement and three floors, included a laboratory, pharmacy, kitchen, administrative offices, and emergency department. The new addition also saw an increase in bed capacity to one hundred and fifty five and created two new operating rooms. On May 15, 1955 the patients were transferred to the new building. In 1967 another major addition was added to the hospital. Known as the Farthing Wing, it included physiotherapy facilities and a new laboratory. In 1997 renovations to create a new surgical suite, recreation room and chemotherapy and dialysis unit began.
Construction on a new hospital for the city began in 2008, and the staff and patients from the previous facility were moved to the new hospital, which is still in use today. The original hospital was demolished a few years later. - Inscriptions
- Hospital, Woodstock, Ont., Canada.
- Date of Original
- 1911
- Subject(s)
- Corporate Name(s)
- Woodstock Hospital
- Local identifier
- PC 71
- Collection
- Oxford County Archives Postcard Collection
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.13339 Longitude: -80.83301 -
Woodstock Hospital:
Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.1399507840723 Longitude: -80.7587336799622
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Recommended Citation
- Woodstock Hospital, Woodstock, Ontario. Oxford County Archives. [COA PC71]
- Reproduction Notes
- Please contact the Oxford County Archives for a higher resolution copy.
- Contact
- Oxford County ArchivesEmail:archives@oxfordcounty.ca
Agency street/mail address:82 Light St. Bo 1614
Woodstock, ON N4S 6H1
