The St Martin’s (alias Stone House) Mental Hospital was assigned as a subsidiary Emergency Hospital ahead of the onset of the Second World War. It was in operation by mid September. There was briefly an air-raid siren here at the start of the war - replaced by the Bab’s Oak Hill siren after mid October 1939. A decontamination laundry, for washing anti-gas clothing which had been contaminated with poison gas, was established at the laundry of the, then vacant, St Martin’s Mental Hospital, in early May 1941. A civil-defence rest centre had been established at the hospital by about the middle of 1941, and an Emergency Feeding Centre in mid to late 1942.
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Canterbury City Council Emergency Committee, 01/01/39, Canterbury City Council Emergency Committee Minute Books 1 to 6 (Unpublished document). SKE14760.

Canterbury City Council Emergency Committee, 01/01/39, Canterbury City Council Emergency Committee Minute Books 1 to 6 (Unpublished document). Ske14760.