Western Community Hospital

The Western Community Hospital is a health facility in William Macleod Way in the Shirley / Millbrook area of Southampton, Hampshire, England.

The facility has its origins in two houses on West Quay in Southampton which were acquired to create an isolation hospital in 1874.

Southampton Corporation acquired the passenger ship, City of Adelaide, and moored it just off Millbrook Point to provide further isolation facilities in 1893.

[1] At a meeting of the Local Board of Health later that year, concern was expressed about the ship being anchored off the point where children played on the beach.

[7] Additionally, a primary health centre was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract: this building, which was built by Geoffrey Osborne Ltd at a cost £16 million immediately to the south west of the community hospital, opened as the Adelaide Health Centre (named after the old isolation ship) in January 2010.

Shirley Isolation Hospital