The History Of the Royal Sea Bathing Hospital- Margate 1791-1991

Rainhan, Kent: Meresborough Books, 1991 Believed to be the oldest orthopaedic hospital in the world. Founded in 1791 by Dr. J.C.Lettsom, a Quaker philanthropist, it has provided treatment for the "scrofulous poor" that is for those with tuberculosis in the bones and joints and glands. Since the 1950s patients with general orthopaedic , uro-genital, chest and rheumatic conditions have occupied… Read more about this item