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THE LAST LAPIn 1962 Regional plans for the future development of the hospitals in Southampton were published showing the Board’sintention of developing the Royal South Hants and the General hospitals with the eventual absorption of the smallerhospitals, including the Children’s.I was invited to join a small working party at the Regional Beard’s office in Winchester to consider plans for a standardWessex district hospital. At our first meeting it immediately became very clear that the plans were primarily those for anew hospital on the General Hospital site and that the Children’s Unit was to be on the top floor of the main block. We hadto accept that the Children’s Hospital was very out-of-date and that it was unrealistic for us to hope that it could bemodernised sufficiently to keep up with current technological advances. We pleaded in vain that the children’s unit shouldbe in a separate building on the site but the plans were already so far advanced that we were only able to make minoralterations.When it became apparent that we would shortly be leaving Winchester Rd, an elaborate plan was put forward by themedical staff to convert the buildings, including Oakfield, into a comprehensive centre for the assessment and care ofchildren with handicap. The plan included the transfer of the facilities being provided at Bursledon, which would then beclosed. The authorities turned down the plan on the grounds that the boiler would not be up to the job! (It packed up threeweeks before the final move!). It is satisfactory to know that just such a unit has now (1989) been established in the oldGroup Offices on the General Hospital site.Long before the final day a commissioning team was set up under Miss Irwin to ensure that the move should be aspainless as possible and, in the event, their hard labours were well rewarded. We had a farewell party for Miss Craddockon May 16th and the actual move took place on May 20th 1974 without a hitch thus bringing to an end ninety years ofservice to the children of Southampton during which time the tiny village hospital had grown up to become an importantcentre of paediatric expertise, research, and teaching.The new buildings at the General Hospital were formally opened on December 6th 1974 by H.M. the Queen, whosubsequently toured the Children’s Unit on Level G of the East Ward Block. Although there can be no doubt that the newunit is much more capacious and has many more facilities, those of us who were privileged to serve there, will cast anoccasional nostalgic glance backwards to the old hospital which was such a friendly, happy and caring place.THE SMALL IS BEAUTIFULPostcript: The old hospital building was demolished in the early 1980s and Brixedone House, Bursledon sold in 1989.
APPENDIX 1Medical StaffDr W. Maclean C.B. M.D. Consulting Physician 1884 - 1897Sir T. Longmore C.B. F.R.C.S. Consulting Surgeon. 1884 - 1895Dr C. G. Beaumont Hon. Medical Officer 1884 - 1892Dr E. T. Chamberlain L.R.C.P. “ “ “ 1884 -1893Mr J, McLachlan Dental Surgeon 1884 - 1910Dr J. S. Robertson M.R.C.S. Hon. Medical Officer 1887 - 1890Dr W. G. Collins Hon. “ “ 1892 - 1897DR R. O. H. Gwillim L.R.C.P, Hon. “ “ 1894 -1899Consulting Surgeon 1903 - d.1926Dr Howard Saunders MB. Hon. Medical Officer 1895 - 1929Consulting Physician 1929 - d.1961Dr W. F. Cooper L.R.C.P. Hon. Medical Officer 1898 - 1920Hon. Consulting Physician 1920 - d 1927Dr Walter Purvis M.D. Hon. Medical Officer 1900 -F.R,C.S. Hon. Surgeon 1907 -1923Dr Gillespie. Hon. Medical Officer 1904 - 1938Hon. Consulting Physician 1938 - d 1944Mr Guy Robertson Hon. Dental Surgeon 1910 -1913Mr C. De Foubert “ “ “ 1913 - 1915Mr E. A. Wolter “ “ “ 1915 -Dr R. J. Vernon Hon. Medical Officer 1914 - 1946Hon. Consulting Physician 1946 -Mr H. C. Balls Hon. Dental Surgeon 1917-1939Dr W. Stewart M.B. Hon. Aural Surgeon 1918 - 1925Consulting Aural Surgeon 1925 -Dr Brogden Hon. Anaesthetist 1920 - 1934Dr B.Castles Powell Hon. Medical Officer 1919 - 1940Dr Simpson Hon. Anmesthetist 1921 - 1922Dr L.W.Howlett Hon. Anaesthetist 1922 -1930Dr A,D.Maxwell “ “ 1922 - 1927Mr H. C, G. Nelson M.D. Hon. Surgeon. 1923 -1932Dr Seager Thomas Hon. Pathologist 1923 -d 1933Dr H.Castle “ Medical Officer 1924 - 1941 d.1943Mr Norman McKeith Hon .Aural Surgeon 1925 - 1947Dr Seager Thomas Hon. Pathologist. 1925 - d.1934Mrs Ursula De Foubert Hon. Medical Officer 1926 - 1932Dr G. R, Marshallsay Hon. Medical Officer 1927 - 1947Dr Norman Aldridge Hon. Electro-therapeutic Physician 1927 - 1929Dr D. Vincent Rice “ “ “ “ 1929 - 1950Mr L. A. R. Richardson Hon. Surgeon 1929 - 1967Mr H. J. May Hon. Ophthalmic surgeon 1929 - 193?Dr H.J.Bower Hon. Physician 1929 - 1950Dr H. Oakley White “ Anaesthetist 1932 - 1939“ Physician 1939 - 1950Dr G. C. Havers “ “ 1933 -Mr Raymond Purvis Hon. Surgeon 1934 - 1938Mr A. B. Moffat Hon. Ophthalmic surgeon 1937 -Dr A.T. Russell Hon. Anaesthetist 1937 - 1948S. W. Lytle F.R.C.S Hon. Surgeon 1938 - 1950Mr A.Russell Assistant Aural Surgeon 1933 - 1961Dr H. H. Gleave M.R.C.P. Hon. Pathologist 1934 - d. 1952Dr J. Cann ‘ Hon. Anaesthetist 1938 -Mr S. W. Lytle F.R.C.S. Hon. Surgeon 1938 -1950Dr N. E. Slaney Hon. Physician 1939 -1950Mr G. V. Dymott Hon. Dental Surgeon 1939 -Mr W. R. Morgan “ “ “ 1939 -1940Mr J. J. Sanders “ “ “ 1940 -Mr E. Bacon Hon. Ophthlmic Surgeon 1940 -Mr H. H. Langston F.R.C.S. Hon. Orthopedic Surgeon 1943 -Mr B. Sugden Aural Surgeon 1947 -Dr R. B. Boal Hon. Assistant Radiologist 1947 -Dr Mary Capes Hon. Psychiatrist 1948 - 1965Dr George Ormiston Paediatrician 1948 - 1963Mr B. Sugden Hon. Assistant Aural Surgn 1947 -Dr J. Preston Director of Phys, Med. 1948 - 197Dr W. L. M. Bigby Hon. Anaesthetist 1948 -Dr C. J. Ball Anaesthetist - 1963Dr A. J. Grimston Cons. Dermatologist 1949? -Dr D. A. J. Wiliamson Cons. Paediatrician 1950 - 1977Dr S. C. Dobson Cons. Pathologist 1951? -Dr R. D. Caton Cons. Radiologist 1952 -
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