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]

Johannesburg - Doornfontein Siemert Road (showing the New Synagogue and Queen Victoria Maternity Home)

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 Johannesburg Hospital.[1] In 1943 a new building was built on Sam Hancock Street, designed by 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 gynecology, making the Queen Victoria Hospital obsolete. It became a residential building.

References
  1. "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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