| Hospital |
Location |
Pre NHS Management |
Function in 1948 |
Beds in 1948 |
Post 1948 History |
| Royal County Infirmary |
Ryde |
Voluntary |
General |
126 |
For many years was the Island’s main general hospital. Ceased to have inpatients after June 1991. Closed 1992 |
| Frank James Memorial |
East Cowes |
Voluntary |
General |
34 |
Closed in May 1991, then permanently in July 2002. |
| Shanklin Cottage |
Shanklin |
Voluntary |
General |
35 |
Closed in September 1990 |
| Fairlee Isolation |
Newport |
Local Authority: Joint Hospital Board |
Infectious Diseases |
31 |
Ceased in 19x to take infectious disease cases. Site now occupied by the Hospice and Oaklands House. |
| Smallpox Hospital |
Ashey, Ryde |
Local Authority: County Council |
Smallpox |
4 |
The last natural case of smallpox occurred in Somalia in October 1977 and the last (laboratory related) case in Birmingham England in September 1978. The Island’s smallpox hospital was closed in 1970’s. |
| Sanatorium |
Longford (Havenstreet) |
Local Authority County Council |
Tuberculosis (IOW residents) |
- |
Ceased to be a TB sanatorium in 1955. |
| Royal National Hospital |
Ventnor |
Voluntary |
Tuberculosis (Generally mainland residents) |
- |
Closed in 1964 |
| County Mental Hospital |
Whitecroft |
Local Authority: County Council |
Mental Illness |
394 |
Closed to inpatients in 1990 – patients transferred to Newcroft, and then later to Sevenacres |
| St. Mary’s Hospital |
Newport |
Local Authority: County Council |
Maternity and ‘chronic’ surgical/medical patients |
- |
Since 1987 The district general hospital for the Island. |
| South Block (Formerly the Workhouse) |
Newport |
Local Authority: County Council |
'Chronic' non surgical/medical patients |
- |
Last in-patient accommodation closed in June 2005. |
