Looks like our heroine Vicky has come up trumps again! She never lets us down Chris and Caroline Dave Jacobs wrote: > Hi List, and especially Valerie, > > A splendid reply, as ever, from our friend Vicky Green at Southampton > Reference Library. > > Cheers, Dave Jacobs > =============== > > >> >> >> Dear Mr Jacobs >> 2 East Park Terrace was the "Southampton Municipal Tuberculosis >> Dispensary, >> School Clinic and Maternity Home" >> The Maternity Home had been set up in 1918, with 4 beds upstairs and an >> ante-natal & child welfare clinic on the ground floor. By 1932 there >> were 19 >> beds, but the facilities were "noisy and did not allow for any >> increase in >> accommodation." Therefore, in late 1933, plans were made for a new 49 >> bed >> unit adjoining the Borough Hospital "where there was ample ground for >> surrounding gardens" (Public Health in a Seaport Town, HC Maurice >> Williams, >> 1960) The new unit was opened on 29 April 1937. >> The East Park Terrace buildings, now just the municipal clinic and >> laboaratory, were destroyed by enemy action on the 30 November 1940. >> >> There is a photograph of the Terrace taken in the 1930's on the >> PortCities >> website http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/3005.asp >> >> We hope this is of help >> Yours >> Vicky Green >> Special Collections Library >> Southampton Reference Library >> Civic Centre >> Southampton >> SO14 7LW > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.5.0 - Release Date: 09/12/2004