the hospital had 22 wards and 212 beds, 112 for the medical unit and 100 for the surgical unit, in 1885. by 1894 hospital had 24 wards and 280 beds. longden place was named kynsey road in 1900. the victoria memorial building (eye ward) and the white house (administration building) were opened in 1903 and 1904 respectively. the first out patient department was founded in 1910 (now it is the main x-ray unit). overcrowding at the hospital resulted in an annex being opened at ragama for elderly and chronically-ill patients but a cholera outbreak in 1912 resulted in these patients being transferred back to the kynsey road site.