Joyce Green Hospital

Joyce Green Hospital was a hospital near Dartford, Kent, England. Opened in 1903 as an isolation hospital, in later years it was a training hospital. The hospital was closed in 2000 and the buildings were demolished.

The hospital was planned in the late 19th century to accommodate sufferers of smallpox, which had reached epidemic levels in London. It replaced three hospital ships based nearby in Long Reach, Gravesend 15 miles downriver from London Bridge on the Thames.[Note 1] The ships, the Atlas, the Endymion and the Castalia, were made fast in 1883 at their new custom built moorings, they were in-line, connected by bridges 150 yard from the riverbank. The ships had become unsuitable for their role due to increasing maintenance costs, the risk of collision from passing ships and the increasing demand for beds for smallpox patients.

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