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seamen's hospital close to the site of the hospital ship. By that time 10,000 seamen (in-patients and out-patients) were being treated each year. The Marquis of Bute, on his death in 1900, bequeathed £20,000 towards the cost of the new building and this was augmented by additional subscriptions of
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Some of the buildings on the site remain in use as a mental health day care centre. Planning approval has been agreed for housing to be built on the site of the old hospital. In 2015 a planning application for an apartment block with affordable homes was recommended for approval by
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at a cost of £2,791. The town's Medical Officer of Health, Dr Henry Paine, had identified the need for a seamen's hospital because of the many diseases that were brought to the docks by sailors from overseas. A piece of waste ground in
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facilities. It remained a seamen's hospital (one of only two in Britain offering free treatment exclusively to seafarers) until 1948. Following the formation of the
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and the hospital ship opened for patients in November 1866. In its first year it admitted 400 patients and the free treatment was funded by a levy of two
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described the design as "An ebullient performance in favourite Queen-Anne-cum-Jacobean style". The foundation stone was laid on 7 August 1902 by the
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per hundred tons of shipping at Cardiff Docks. The hospital ship was to remain at this site until 1905, when a permanent hospital was opened.
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primary school, was scheduled to move to the site in 2017, but moved to a new building on the site in January 2019.
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After the remaining 30 mental health patients had been transferred to the newly-opened
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The Hamadryad Centre, formerly the Royal Hamadryad Hospital, Cardiff
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Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales
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Hospital ship in front of the new hospital building (1904–1905)
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Glamorgan: (Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan)
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it became a general hospital and then a psychiatric facility.
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Royal Hamadryad Hospital is located in Cardiff
Cardiff
Coordinates
51°27′45″N 3°10′29″W / 51.4624°N 3.1746°W / 51.4624; -3.1746
Care system
NHS
Type
Specialist
Hospitals in Wales
seamen's
psychiatric hospital
Cardiff
HMS Hamadryad

HMS Hamadryad
Dartmouth
Cardiff
hospital ship
Cardiff Docks
Marquis of Bute
shillings

Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria
bricks-and-mortar
John Newman
4th Marquess of Bute
x-ray
National Health Service
St David's Hospital

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