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The influx of volunteers into Bexhill and the setting up of the training camp at Cooden in 1914, presented healthcare and hygiene challenges for the town. The local newspapers reported the efforts of the Town Council and its officers, and of individual citizens to deal with these emerging challenges. Dr Weston, Medical Officer of Health […]

From the Bexhill Observer 19th January 1918 THE SCHOOL NURSE A POPULAR APPOINTMENT A meeting of the Bexhill Education Committee was held at the Town Hall on Thursday evening. Mr W.F. Giller presided, and there was also present Councillors W. Brown, G. Coppard, R. C. Hampton, J. Rogers, and F. W. Vane, I.S.O., Mrs Meads […]

From the Bexhill Observer 19th August 1916 CHILDREN’S COMPLAINTS OVER 400 EXAMINATIONS ONE TOOTH BRUSH TO A FAMILY. The urgent importance of promoting the health and improving the physique of the young generations is now so obvious to all that greater interest in the medical inspection of school children may be anticipated. It is satisfactory […]

From the Bexhill Observer 18th January 1919 TOWN NURSING ASSOCIATION Important Health Work All To Co-operate A meeting convened by the Mayor, Alderman G.H.Gray, J.P. in support of a Town Nursing Association was held on Wednesday afternoon at the Town Hall. In a circular appealing for a representative attendance the Mayor explained that the St. […]

Parish Nurses and Plans for a Town Nursing Association Until 1919 District Nursing was provided in Bexhill by the Nursing Associations of St. Peter’s Church and St Barnabas Church. They were funded by church funds and voluntary contributions within the congregations and more widely in the community. They were entirely non-denominational in the service they […]

Not long after the formation of the Boy Scouts, Girls also began to demand the same. Groups began to collect together and created a similar uniform to that of the boys – usually a khaki hat with Scout badge and a long green or navy skirt. At the first Scouts’ Rally in September 1909 held […]

With over four military hospitals in the town during the War many local women worked as either trained nurses or as VAD Nurses. Local nurses also served in some of the war zones and on hospital ships. Here are some of their stories. Sister Ethel Bray (Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service or QAIMNS) Ethel […]

In January 1918 the Cooden Training Camp was taken over and transformed into the Princess Patricia Canadian Red Cross Hospital, relocated from Uxbridge and Ramsgate. When it closed in August 1919 it was reported to have treated over 20,000 patients. It was designated as a Convalescent Hospital although records indicate that acute wounds and medical […]

From the Bexhill Observer 6th March 1915 New Isolation Hospital. Local Government Board Inquiry. THE MAYOR ON SHOW VERSUS ESSENTIALS Pleas For Delay. The Corporation’s proposal to erect a new isolation hospital at Clinch Green at a cost of £6.500 formed the subject of a Local Government Board Inquiry at the Town Hall on Tuesday […]

From the Bexhill Observer 17th January 1914. NEW ISOLATION HOSPITAL Scheme to cost £6,400. SHARP CRITICISM BY COUNCILLOR STEVENS. Councillor Glover and the Medical Officer. A long discussion took place at the Town Council meeting on Monday respecting the proposal of the Sanitary Committee for the establishment of a new Isolation Hospital. A good deal […]