Queen Victoria Hospital (Johannesburg)

The Queen Victoria Hospital, Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital or Queen Victoria Maternity Home is a defunct hospital that operated in Johannesburg starting in 1904.^[1]

History

The first Queen Victoria Hospital building was designed by Allen Wilson^[2] and could accommodate 50 patients.^[1] It was built in 1904 on Siemert Road and administered by the Guild of Loyal Woman.^[1] In 1906, it moved to Milner Park.^[1]

In 1913 it became a branch of the

Gordon Leith.^[1] The building is standing as of February 2015, although it is no longer in use.^[3]^[1]

When the new Johannesburg Hospital was built, the first block was dedicated to obstetrics and gynaecology, making the Queen Victoria Hospital obsolete. It became a residential building.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Hospital Hill (Old Suburb between Braamfontein & Hillbrow)". Johannesburg 1912 - Suburb by suburb research. 2 January 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
^ "WILSON, Allen". www.artefacts.co.za. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
^ Queen Victoria Hospital, Sam Hancock St (Map). February 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2019.

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[:0-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Hospital Hill (Old Suburb between Braamfontein & Hillbrow)". Johannesburg 1912 - Suburb by suburb research. 2 January 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2019.

[2] "WILSON, Allen". www.artefacts.co.za. Retrieved 17 January 2019.

[3] Queen Victoria Hospital, Sam Hancock St (Map). February 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2019.

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