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Passmore Edwards (Tilbury) Cottage Hospital
1.101 The Passmore Edwards Cottage Hospital 138 was constructed opposite the gates
of Tilbury Docks in Essex and was opened in June 1896. It could accommodate
15 in–patients and was designed initially to cope with accidents arising in the
Tilbury Docks. As the Docks expanded a larger hospital with more modern
equipment was felt to be necessary, and the Seamen’s Hospital Society agreed
to take over the running of the hospital with effect from January 1924. The
hospital was thereupon renamed “the Tilbury Hospital”. This change of
management necessitated the making of a Charity Commission scheme which
was confirmed by the Passmore Edwards (Tilbury) Cottage Hospital Charity
Scheme Confirmation Act 1926. 139 The scheme confirmed by the 1926 Act
provided that the hospital and its endowments should be administered by the
Seamen’s Hospital Society.
1.102 This arrangement ended in 1948 when control of the hospital passed from the
Seamen’s Hospital Society to the National Health Service. 140 The 1926 Act and
scheme thereupon became unnecessary.
Feltwell Fuel Allotment Charity
1.103 According to its long title, the purpose of the Feltwell Fuel Allotment Charity
Scheme Confirmation Act 1927 141 was “to confirm a Scheme of the Charity
Commissioners for the application or management of the Charity known as the
Fuel Allotment in the Ancient Parishes of Feltwell St Mary and Feltwell St
Nicholas in the County of Norfolk”. This fuel allotment charity originated with an
inclosure award dated 8 September 1815 which was made pursuant to an Act of
1813. 142 The scheme confirmed by the 1927 Act empowered the charity’s
trustees to sell parts of the land known as the West Common in Feltwell and use
the yearly income from the sale proceeds, after payment of debts and expenses,
for the purchase of fuel for distribution among the poor inhabitants of Feltwell St
Mary and Feltwell St Nicholas.
138 John Passmore Edwards (1823-1911) was a journalist and philanthropist who funded
many hospitals, schools, libraries and other public buildings.
139 16 & 17 Geo.5 c.xxiii.
140 By virtue of the National Health Service Act 1946, s 6 and the National Health Service Act
(Appointed Day) Order 1948 (SI 1948 No 112) all voluntary hospitals (including the
Passmore Edwards Cottage Hospital at Tilbury) and all hospitals belonging to local
authorities were, with certain exceptions, transferred to and vested in the Minister of Health
on 5 July 1948. In 1950 the hospital became the Tilbury branch of the Tilbury and
Riverside General Hospital (combining Tilbury and Orsett Hospitals), and was used
primarily as a general training school for nurses. The hospital was closed in 1969 and the
premises were subsequently demolished.
141 17 & 18 Geo.5 c.xxxii.
142 53 Geo.3 c.cxlii (Feltwell Inclosure).
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