We’re celebrating the hard work of everyone at theNational Health Serviceas it转72., and its historic links with another service that runs on critical workers – the railway.
沿着斯沃林登的法令路漫步，您可能会发现一个纪念角色的蓝色牌匾伟大的西式铁路前医学基金和浴室建筑为“NHS的蓝图”。
gwr -Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s link between伦敦帕丁顿, South West England and South Wales – chose Swindon for its locomotive works in the 1840s. In 1847, the railway company founded The Great Western Railway Medical Fund Society to help look after its workers living in the GWR New Swindon railway village,根据历史悠久的英格兰.
它来到Daniel Gooch，Sundentendent和Brunel的朋友之后，对影响员工的事故和流行病感到更加关注。他要求公司董事允许推出一项提高健康，提升可靠性，并鼓励熟练工人留在GWR的基金。
The company deducted money from employees’ wages to fund the society, initially called the Sick Club, and in its early days provided a doctor who staff and their families could see for no extra cost.
The railway works got bigger and so did the fund’s provisions, which later included a swimming pool, baths and eventually Turkish baths.
1871年，该基金开设了一家山寨医院，为工作人员提供了事故和紧急服务，从1887年，机械学院的牙科实践。
Faringdon Road的本建筑中的第一个建于1891年至1892年，将社会的服务带到一个屋檐下。可药房，咨询室和候诊室占地面积在米尔顿路的拐角处。在主要入口下面的地下室水平的隧道向北，在铁路村的房屋下，直接到马车工作，允许运输包括煤炭的供应。
Bevan’s stamp of approval
The fund wound up as the NHS reached the planning stage and was officially established in 1948. By then, the fund’s Faringdon Road site comprised swimming baths, Russian and Turkish washing baths, a dispensary, a doctor’s, dental practices and laboratory, and specialist medical departments.
After politician and NHS champion Aneurin Bevan visited the facilities, he said: “There it was, a complete health service. All we had to do was to expand it to embrace the whole country.”
伦敦，米德兰和苏格兰铁路还有一家医院，在克鲁省的米尔街。According to ‘Crewe: Railway Town, Company and People 1840 – 1914’ by DK Drummond, the Grand Junction Railway, 2as paternalistic creator of New Crewe, the GJR Company,” built “a series of railway hospitals… The earliest being situated on Liverpool Terrace right beside the mainline, while the most recent, Mill Street hospital, was purpose built early in the present century”.
The Architecture the Railways Built – Great Western Railway
Integrated infrastructure
Swindon和Crewe不是与英国医疗系统唯一历史悠久的铁路连接的家园。
John Page, a records assistant atNetwork Rail’s archive, said: “It was very common for hospitals, especially those for mentally ill patients, to have railway connections. These were not only used for patients but were crucial for goods, like coal, and food.
“Usually these hospitals were built in remote areas to keep patients isolated from the general public, so, in a time when roads were not the most efficient way to move goods, the railways allowed connections to their network.”
它们包括在内地狱医院, a large psychiatric facility near the village of Hellingly, east of Hailsham, which had its own electric tramway, the Hellingly Hospital Railway, according to the NHS.
它建于20世纪座初，帮助缓解海边健康庇护的过度拥挤，以前苏塞克斯县庇护。
It had its own electric tramway, known as the Hellingly Hospital Railway. The line went from Hellingly railway station to the hospital’s boiler house and primarily helped transport coal for the boiler system and electricity plant.
其他保健设施与其自己的铁路包括苏格兰斯沃茨的赫特伍德医院，拥有自己的铁路连接，以及高罗伊德医院铁路;霍顿轻铁铁路;圣爱德华兹医院电车轨道和漂白汉医院铁路。
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