Monmouth Hospital

Monmouth Hospital
Aneurin Bevan Health Board
Monnow Vale Hospital
Geography
Location	Monmouth, Wales
Coordinates	51°48′37″N 2°43′30″W / 51.81016°N 2.725056°W / 51.81016; -2.725056Coordinates: 51°48′37″N 2°43′30″W / 51.81016°N 2.725056°W / 51.81016; -2.725056
Organisation
Care system	NHS
Services
Beds	19
History
Founded	1868
Links
Lists	Hospitals in Wales

Monmouth Hospital was a hospital founded in 1868 in Monmouth, Wales, relocated in 1903 to Hereford Road in that town, and closed on 12 May 2006, when services transferred to the Monnow Vale Health and Social Care Centre at Drybridge Park.

A Dispensary was first located at Little Castle House, Castle Hill, in 1810. It was founded to provide free advice and medicine for the poor, and to encourage vaccination. The support and financing was largely from donations, concerts, fees and exhibitions. Three doctors were appointment annually after a table of their kills and cures had been examined. The dispensary had an income of around £200 annually and dispensed around £160 worth of medicine each year.

Monmouth Hospital and Dispensary was opened at Cartref, St James' Square, in 1868 with nine beds. covered the cost of 'The Hendre Bed' in perpetuity The equipment may have been inadequate as an appeal for rags and wound dressings went out in 1872.

Around 1840, letters started to appear in the Monmouthshire Beacon advocating a General Hospital for Monmouth. The lack of an operating room and difficult stairs in the dispensary were proving a problem.

Calls for an isolation hospital were often printed in the paper following each outbreak of cholera including a bad outbreak in 1849 confined the Union workhouse on Hereford road where 16 people died. Eventually presented the town with the donation of the Carthage Cottages off the Hereford road, near manson lane, for an isolation hospital. This was well received and the Hospital for Infectious diseases existed before closing sometime before the 1960s

As well as donating the Carthage Cottages donated £1000 in 1840 for a replacement to the Dispensary. It was not until 60 years later on the 6th November 1903, a new Cottage Hospital and Dispensary opened in Hereford Road. The work started in April 1902. The laying of the Memorial Stone took place on September 27, 1902. Lord Llangattock president of the hospital reminded everybody at the ceremony that it was for the suffering and afflicted poor. The ground was bought from the Duke of Beaufort for £250. It was designed by Richard Creed, built by Collins and Geoffrey and Furnished by George Edwards of Monmouth.