Epsom and Ewell Cottage Hospital is a small

hospital A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emerge ...

in West Park Road, Horton Lane,

Epsom Epsom is the principal town of the Borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, England, about south of central London. The town is first recorded as ''Ebesham'' in the 10th century and its name probably derives from that of a Saxon landowner. The ...

Surrey Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. ...

. It is managed by CSH Surrey.

History

The hospital has its origins in a facility established at Pembroke Cottages at Pikes Hill in April 1873. It moved to Hawthorn Place in 1877 and to Alexandra Road in 1889.

Emily Davison Emily Wilding Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was an English suffragette who fought for Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Polit ...

died at the hospital after being hit by

King George V George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936. Born during the reign of his grandmother Que ...

's horse Anmer at the 1913 Derby when she walked onto the track during the race. The hospital joined the

National Health Service The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). Since 1948, they have been funded out of general taxation. There are three systems which are referred to using the " ...

in 1948. Although the hospital officially closed in 1988, the facility is still used for the physiotherapy and rehabilitation.

Notable Staff

* Susie Dunham, (1861-1917) Matron - July 1903 until her death in 1917.Rogers, Sarah (2022). 'A Maker of Matrons’? A study of Eva Lückes’s influence on a generation of nurse leaders:1880–1919' (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Huddersfield, April 2022) Dunham trained at

The London Hospital The Royal London Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is part of Barts Health NHS Trust. It provides district general hospital services for the City of London and Tower Hamlets and spe ...

under

Eva Luckes Eva Charlotte Ellis Luckes (8 July 1854 – 16 February 1919) was Matron of The London Hospital from 1880 to 1919. Early life Eva Abigail Charlotte Ellis Luckes (she herself spelled her name Lückes with the umlaut) was born in Exeter, Devo ...

between 1891 and 1893, and worked there as a Staff Nurse until 1901.Susie Dunham, Register of Probationers; RLHLH/N/1/4, 20; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London Susie Dunham, Register of Sisters and Nurses; RLHLH/N/4/1/144; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London

References

Sources

* * Hospital buildings completed in 1889 Hospitals in Surrey Epsom Cottage hospitals NHS hospitals in England {{UK-hospital-stub