A FAMOUS WAR HOSPITAL
One of the most finely equippod lios-i pitals in Great Britain is to be closed soon. It is the Queen's Hospital at Sideup, Kent, which at present accommodates patients by arrangement -with the Ministry of Pensiqns. There are already 470 vacant beds 'in its 20 wards. It was made famous during the war (writes the medical correspondent of the "Daily Mail") by the work of Dr. H. D. Gillies and his team, who repaired tragic disfigurements by a patient series of operations. Dr. Gillies literally rebuilt their faces. As many as thirty successive operations were sometimes involved in a single case. Nearly 19,000 patients have passed through the hospital since its opening in August 1917. There are 94 acres of. ground •which include a football field, tennis court, a theatre, and a cinema. It has a complete scientific equipment for treatment by 5-rays and light and a laboratory.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 140, 10 December 1929, Page 14
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152A FAMOUS WAR HOSPITAL Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 140, 10 December 1929, Page 14
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