This month we looked at Health.

The meeting began with an overview of studying and practising medicine in Cambridge.

Next, we heard about Sir Pendrill Charles Varrier Jones and his treatment of soldiers with tuberculosis after WW1. He bought Papworth Hall where he established the Papworth Village Settlement which went on to become a leading hospital for heart and lung surgery. Today we know it as the Royal Papworth Hospital on the Addenbrookes Biomedical Campus.

In St. Ives we learnt about the Grove family where three generations of the family served the town as GPs.

Dr. John Addenbrooke left money in his will for the building of a hospital which opened in 1766 on Trumpington Street. Many additions were made to the original building which finally closed in 1984. Huntingdon Hospital became Hinchingbrooke Hospital in 1983.Maternity hospitals such as Primrose |Lane in Huntingdon and Mill Road in Cambridge brought back many memories.

Final mention was made of Doddington Hospital, the The Princess of Wales Hospital in Ely, Fulbourn Hospital and the Ida Darwin Hospital.