Harvard Hospital, Salisbury
The hospital, opened at Harnham Hill, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, in 1941, came into being as result of the desire of Harvard University and it's Medical community to provide direct-support to the medical community and people of the United Kingdom. 1941 was to be the end of the "Phoney War"; and, for the United States, the beginning of the Second World War. Harvard University and the American Red Cross supplied medical experts to the United Kingdom to share their expertise in communicable / infectious diseases; and, to help protect the public against the spead of diseases arising from aerial bombardment of British cities. The hospital, designed and built in the American as a "flat pack" field hospital, performed three different major functions in its, almost, fifty-year-life as a medical facility. The first was an emergency infectious diseases field hospital managed by the US Red Cross and staffed by volunteer medical, nursing and non-medical staff from Harvard University and the American Red Cross. The second was: a United States Army hospital in southern England with a central infectious diseases laboratory; and a central base for the US Army for taking, storing and distributing blood for American troops fighting in Europe. When the US Army left, the hospital's owners, Harvard University and the American Red Cross, gifted it to the UK's Ministry of Health. Its final and longest function, from 1946 until its closure in the late 1980s, was to house the Common Cold Unit.
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Andrews Way, Salisbury Harnham Hill
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Andrews Way
Andrews Way
SP2 8QR Salisbury, Harnham Hill
England, United Kingdom
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