Erith and District Hospital
Erith and District Hospital is a health facility in Park Crescent, Erith, Kent, England. It is managed by Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust. Its former X-Ray Department, which is located underground, is a Grade II listed building.History
The facility has its origins in a couple of cottages in Crayford Road which were converted for clinical use as the Erith, Crayford, Belvedere and Abbey Wood Hospital in 1871. It moved to new facilities in Erith High Street in 1875 and to purpose-built premises in Park Crescent, which ere officially opened by the Prince of Wales, in 1924. It was extended in 1933 and an underground hospital, operated as part of the Emergency Medical Service, was built in 1938 and was in use throughout the Second World War. It joined the National Health Service as Erith and District Hospital in 1948 and a new outpatients department was competed in 1954.
