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Hospital

Hothfield Hospital

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Important information

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Details

Previous Names
West Ashford Union Workhouse Infirmary (1902-1930), Hothfield Institution (1930-?)
Address
Hothfield, TN25 4LW
Foundation Year
1902
Status
Closed (since 1979)

Administrative Authorities

Regional Board (1948-1974)
South East Metropolitan
Management Committee (1948-1974)
South East Kent
Regional Authority (1974-1982)
South East Thames
District Authority (1974-1982)
South East Kent
Pre-1974 County
Kent
Post-1974 County
Kent

Status

Pre-1948
Local Authority, Poor Law
Pre-1948 information
Taken over as a military hospital during World War II
Post-1948
NHS

Type

Pre-1948
General, Military
Post-1948
Acute, Geriatric

Other information

Patients transferred to William Harvey Hospital Ashford in 1979. Now a private nursing home

Record locations

  • East Kent Archives Centre

    Record types

    Administrative
    1945 - 1957
    Admission
    1945 - 1957
    Clinical
    1943 - 1976

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Catalogue
    Location
    At Repository (AR)
    Patient records consists of Register of deaths 1943-1950, Mortuary registers 1964-1976