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BARKING HOSPITAL
Following a long campaign by members of the Borough Council and other
interested persons for an increase in local hospital facilities, the Regional
Hospital Board in 1957 decided that the Barking Hospital should be developed to
provide a full range of acute in-patient and out-patient services.
Work started on the site in November 1963, the buildings were completed by
the end of 1966, and the hospital was formally opened by H.R.H. Princess
Alexandra on 20th April, 1967.
The hospital now provides 276 beds of which 84 are for obstetrics and 54
for geriatrics. The new buildings include a twin operating theatre suite, X-ray
department, pathology department, and a comprehensive physical medicine department
with excellent hydro-therapy and occupational therapy sections.
The final cost of the development is estimated to be approximately two and a
half million pounds.
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