Other buildings on the site include the former morgue, the former laundry (1942), the former nurses' quarters (1925), and the former maternity block (1941).

[3] There was an urgent need at the time for hospitals in the Avon Valley: York was one of the Avon Valley towns which had to cope with the increasing number of men being brought from the Eastern Goldfields for medical care and treatment.

Lack of potable water and inadequate hygiene in the first years, caused outbreaks of typhoid fever and dysentery, while the scarcity of fresh vegetables and other vital foodstuffs caused widespread scurvy and other diet deficiency sickness.

[2]: 47 When the hospital closed in 1963, it was used as the Civil Defence Headquarters[4] and then sold to the United Department of Christian Education (Methodist Church) which called the building Mirrambeena House.

[2]: 46 It has an English derived look with its high pitched gables, but an Australian and tropical touch is imparted by the wide verandahs, which extend across both storeys at front and back.”[2]: 46  The hospital building has some features of Red House, Bexleyheath in the south of London, the home designed by William Morris, one of the founders of the Arts and Crafts movement; for example the fact that the roof over the main entrance porch “comes down low and asymmetrically as part of the main roof”.