{"id":199,"date":"2010-02-10T23:28:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T23:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/?p=199"},"modified":"2010-02-17T16:32:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:32:48","slug":"the-second-world-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"The Second World War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the Second World War (1939-1945), the hospital was once again commandeered for military use. It became the Whitchurch Emergency Hospital.\u00a0 800 beds were used for the reception and treatment of war casualties, including civilians and 200 beds were retained for civilian mental patients.\u00a0 Once again, most of the existing mental patients were transferred to neighbouring mental hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>By the summer of 1940, the hospital was functioning as a general casualty, orthopaedic, neurosis and mental hospital.\u00a0 As the war progressed, the hospital became a specialist orthopaedic centre, a function which was to transfer to Rhydlafer Hospital after the war.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Rhydlafer Hospital visit, <a title=\"Rhydlafer Hospital\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pentyrch.org.uk\/rhydlafar\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pentyrch.org.uk\/rhydlafar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the war in 1945, under the direction of Dr. Thomas Hennelly, Medical Superintendent, the hospital retuned to its function caring for the mentally ill.\u00a0 In 1948, with the establishment of the National Health Service, the hospital was renamed Whitchurch Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Tim Goosey for this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Second World War (1939-1945), the hospital was once again commandeered for military use. It became the Whitchurch Emergency Hospital.\u00a0 800 beds were used for the reception and treatment of war casualties, including civilians and 200 beds were retained for civilian mental patients.\u00a0 Once again, most of the existing mental patients were transferred to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-war-years","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}