Beaufort War Hospital
‘Two hundred or more would arrive in the middle of the night’
Letter from Stanley Spencer, Royal Army Medical Corps orderly at Beaufort War Hospital
As greater and greater numbers of wounded servicemen arrived in England, more hospital beds were needed around the country.
In Bristol, when the Bristol Lunatic Asylum in Fishponds became Beaufort War Hospital, 45 Asylum patients stayed on to help run the hospital.
Between May 1915 and February 1919, the hospital treated over 29,000 patients. Only 164 of them died, 30 of those from the influenza epidemic of 1918-19. Many men were left disabled.
The hospital had just 30 beds for psychiatric cases, for men with shell shock (or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as it would be called now).
As greater and greater numbers of wounded servicemen arrived in England, more hospital beds were needed around the country.
In Bristol, when the Bristol Lunatic Asylum in Fishponds became Beaufort War Hospital, 45 Asylum patients stayed on to help run the hospital.
Between May 1915 and February 1919, the hospital treated over 29,000 patients. Only 164 of them died, 30 of those from the influenza epidemic of 1918-19. Many men were left disabled.
The hospital had just 30 beds for psychiatric cases, for men with shell shock (or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as it would be called now).