cottage hospitaln.
/ˌkɒtɪdʒ ˈhɒspɪtl/, U.S. /ˌkɑdɪdʒ ˈhɑˌspɪdl/ Originally and chiefly British.
A small hospital serving a local community. Cf. community hospital n. at community n. Compounds 2.Originally used of a hospital established in a rural area, housed in a cottage or similar small building, or a group of adjacent small buildings, and without a resident medical staff. The more general term community hospital is now more usual.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > other types of hospital
general hospital1647
private hospital1763
community hospital1843
day hospital1843
cottage hospital1849
field hospital1861
isolation hospital1891
teaching hospital1963
1849 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 28 Apr. 6/3 The sun-ray dances around the door of his cottage hospital, and he crawls forth to bless it, and be blessed in return.
1854 Assoc. Med. Jrnl. 2 1019 (title) Nurses and cottage-hospitals for the sick poor.
1874 Congregationalist (Boston, Mass.) 17 Sept. 300/6 In furtherance of the purpose of the late Dr. Todd to establish a Cottage Hospital in Pittsfield, for afflicted orphans and those who require special surgical aid, a bazaar is being held in that town this week.
1937 Rotarian Aug. 36/2 A generous citizen..realizing the inadequate facilities on an isolated island—Phillip Island—gave the Association a third cottage hospital.
1962 G. Hunter New Societies Trop. Afr. vi. 106 It is really distressing to find, even on a modern plantation with an excellent cottage hospital and dispensaries, so much of a doctor's time spent in [etc.].
2009 Hemel Gaz. (Nexis) 3 Mar. Health chiefs say following research Breakspear Way has emerged as the favoured site for a new cottage hospital in Hemel Hempstead.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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