Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, that in view of the strong feeling in Skye, he would see that no final decision on the location of the new hospital would be made without ‘direct consultation with local people’.
Hereford General was the first hospital in the modern sense to be established in the county. It was founded in 1776 and occupied adapted premises in Eign Street. Its success warranted a permanent structure for which a site was given by Lord Oxford (Edward Harley, the third Earl of Oxford an...