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general hospital
[app. after F. hôpital général, the name of the hospital founded at Bicêtre, France, in 1656.]
a. A hospital which does not confine itself to patients suffering from one particular class of disease or to those of a particular sex or age-group.
1737(title) The plan and elevation of a new general hospital intended to be erected at Bath for the reception of 150 poor strangers. 1757A. R. Curiosities of Paris iv. 62 General Hospital, is a small Distance from the City... They receive all Kinds of Patients upon Application, such as Women with Child, Foundlings, Orphans, and Lunatics. 1794Medical Extracts ii. 62 The air in the lowest ward in the General Hospital. 1803Guide Watering & Sea-Bathing Places 44 The General Hospital..is open to the sick poor of the United Kingdom,..the inhabitants of Bath alone excepted. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 333 In general hospitals a sanitary officer is to be appointed. 1880Encycl. Brit. XII. 302/1 Hospitals are usually divided into General and Special. In General Hospitals cases of all kinds are admitted in some, whilst in others certain classes are excluded. 1966R. P. Sloan Today's Hospital i. 7 The trend is away from the ‘special disease’ hospital and toward the ‘general’ hospital assuming responsibility directly or indirectly for all physical or mental disabilities.
b. A military hospital receiving the sick and wounded from field hospitals.
1854F. Nightingale Let. 15 Dec. in C. Woodham-Smith F. Nightingale (1950) ix. 183 The proportion of Roman Catholics..is already making an outcry... Dr. Menzies has declared that he will have two only in the General Hospital. 1863Good Words Nov. 817/1 The army hospitals near Washington are of course full, and a general hospital has been lately established at Gettysburg. 1899Daily News 27 Nov. 5/3 Large hospitals..known as ‘general hospitals’ (or ‘base hospitals’), each accommodating 500 men and 20 officers... A large staff is necessary for the working of each ‘general hospital’. 1914Times 30 Oct. 10/1, 3rd Southern General Hospital, Oxford. 1964W. R. M. Drew in F. N. L. Poynter Evol. Hospitals in Brit. 165 Altogether, there were nineteen bearer companies, twenty-eight field hospitals..and twenty-two general hospitals. |