Harvard Hospital, Salisbury

The hospital - opened at Harnham Hill, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, in 1941 - came into being as result of the desire of Harvard University, and it's Medical community, to provide direct-support to the medical community and people of the United Kingdom. 1941 was the end of the "Phoney War"; and, for the United States, the beginning of the Second World War. They supplied medical experts to the United Kingdom to share their expertise in communicable / Infectious diseases; and, to help protect the public against the spead of diseases arising from aerial bombardment of British cities.

The hospital they designed and built performed three different tasks in its, almost, fifty-year-life as a medical facility. The first was an emergency infectious diseases field hospital managed by the US Red Cross and staffed by volunteer medical, nursing and non-medical staff from Harvard University and the American Red Cross. The second task was: a United States Army hospital in southern England; a central infectious diseases laboratory and a central base for blood distribution for American troops in Europe.

From 1946, buildings within the hospital were used to house the Common Cold Unit.