The Story of a Hospital

By Wilfrid Edgecombe, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S.

The history of the Harrogate and District General Hospital

The site adopted

As previously recorded, the Knaresborough Road site for the new hospital was finally adopted in 1925. Its purchase at £7.000 was rendered unnecessary by the munificence of the president Capt C S Greenwood, who offered it, in 1927, to the hospital as a free gift. The property Avenue Cottage, adjoining and belonging to the hospital, was sold for £407. In this year is noted the first appointment of a lady almoner to the hospital in the person of Miss Siddons, who did invaluable and much needed work.