Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital [????- ]
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I walked past this site yesterday, and they're just finishing the demolition.
The missionary doctor, the Rev. W. J. Webb Anderson M.B., Ch.B was one of the mainstays of the Wesleyan Missionary Church hospital in Fatshan, Canton, where he worked for over twenty years, according to Carl Smith. According to my father’s memory, the Rev Webb Anderson was one of the closest friends of his own father, Charles Edward Warren, who often visited him on the mainland. Webb Anderson's Hong Kong furlough bungalow had originally been in Leighton Hill, but became 19 Broadwood Road when Broadwood Road was created.
The 1948 telephone directory says it is was at "gr. fl., 1 Babington Path".
You can see the site in this photo, http://gwulo.com/node/16055, though I'm not sure if the building in that photo is the same building that would be there in 1948.
The position is approximate. It is marked on a 1924 map, but I'm not sure who ran it or what type of illnesses it treated. It may have been connected with the Tung Wah Plague Hospital, which was on the adjacent plot of land.