The old Newton Abbot Hospital was a health facility in East Street,

Newton Abbot Newton Abbot is a market town and civil parish on the River Teign in the Teignbridge District of Devon, England. Its 2011 population of 24,029 was estimated to reach 26,655 in 2019. It grew rapidly in the Victorian era as the home of the Sou ...

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, England. It was managed by

Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Trust Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Trust was a NHS trust that provided health and care in and around Torbay, Devon, England. It was a pioneer within the NHS in England in demonstrating the advantages of integrating health and social car ...

. The main entrance block is a Grade II

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History

The facility, which was designed by

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and

William Bonython Moffatt William Bonython Moffatt (1812 – 24 May 1887) was an architect, who for many years was a partner with Sir George Gilbert Scott at Spring Gardens, London. Moffatt was the son of a small builder and pupil of James Edmeston. He was originally taken ...

, opened as the Newton Abbot Union Workhouse in 1837. A new infirmary building, designed by Samuel Segar, was added in 1871. An inquiry by the Local Government Board in 1894 found that some elderly patients were placed naked into sacks known as "jumpers" and that this treatment had led to the death of at least one such patient. It became the Newton Abbot Public Assistance Institution in 1930 and joined the

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in 1948. After services transferred to

Newton Abbot Community Hospital Newton Abbot Community Hospital is a health facility on Jetty Marsh Road in Newton Abbot, Devon, England. It is managed by Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust is the main provider of NHS serv ...

in 2009, the old Newton Abbot Hospital closed and the main building was subsequently converted into a

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outlet.

References

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