Mynydd Mawr Hospital ( cy, Ysbyty Mynydd Mawr) was a

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at Upper Tumble,

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, Wales. It was managed by the

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History

The hospital was established as the West Wales Isolation Hospital in the 1920s. It joined the

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in 1948 and it was extended in the 1970s. After services transferred to the

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in Llanelli, Mynydd Mawr Hospital closed in October 2013.

References

{{authority control Defunct hospitals in Wales Hospitals in Carmarthenshire