The Louise Margaret Hospital was opened in 1898 to cater for British Army soldiers' wives and children in the military town of Aldershot Garrison.

[1] She declared the new building open on 25 July 1898 in a ceremony with a military band, guard of honour and a service with three clergymen.

[2] The new yellow-brick building with slate roofs echoed the construction materials used by its larger neighbour, the Cambridge Military Hospital.

It had a new sort of "brilliant light" and Doulton basins and sinks "fitted with the latest kind of mixing valves for hot and cold water with elbow-action and sprays".

The hospital was already an officially recognised midwifery training school preparing twenty nurses a year for the Central Midwives Board examination.

This wing was in fact two separate "unpretentious" extensions to east and west which blended in with the original building and provided accommodation for up to six women and eight children.

[10] After unveiling a stone tablet in the wall and naming the new wing,[9] she continued to visit the hospital regularly, as she had already been doing for several years.

[11] In 1928, when the British Medical Association was promoting the benefits of antenatal care, they used the Louise Margaret Hospital as a good example.

[12] Similar claims of successful outcomes of antenatal care at the hospital were made in 1924 by the commanding officer of the time, Edward L.

Council planning documents support the idea of removing all post-1926 additions and turning the Louise Margaret Hospital into housing.