PICTURE GALLERY: NHS 70th celebrations - Eastbourne's Downside Hospital

Downside Hospital was situated off East Dean Road in Eastbourne at the foot of the Downs.
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It had 62 beds in seven blocks enabling various disease and observation cases to be admitted.

Patients with scarlet fever and diphtheria were treated at the hospital. T

There was a separate small-pox hospital on the Crumbles situated “just outside the borough of Eastbourne”.

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