cottage n OED ~ 6: ~ hospital (1860, 1890). Combs ~ hospital: small hospital with non-specialist medical and nursing service for 'outport' community, ~ roof.
   1933 Nfld Royal Commission Report 212 The twelve hospitals in the Island, of which six are in St John's, are generally well-equipped and managed, but in view of the distances which patients have to travel there is room in many parts of the coast for the establishment of small hospitals of the 'Cottage Hospital' type. 1941 SMALLWOOD 157 Cottage Hospitals [listed at] Old Perlican, Markland, Argentia, Come by Chance, Burin, Grand Bank, Harbor Breton, Stephenville Crossing, Burgeo, Bonne Bay, Port Saunders. 1988 NEARY 52 By the end of 1936, cottage hospitals were...in operation at Old Perlican, Argentia, Come-by-Chance, Grand Bank, Harbour Breton, and Burgeo. 1989 Nfld Herald 15 July, p. 12 The St Lawrence hospital [is] the only cottage hospital...built without government assistance. It was built by the American government...in appreciation [of the rescue of] American sailors who went down with their ships the U.S.S. Truxton and the U.S.S. Pollux during a naval disaster in 1942. 1987 FIZZARD 143 Around the early 1920s we find the first examples of smaller houses [in Grand Bank] with four sided roofs. In some instances the four sides met in a point to form a pyramid; in others, the four sides met in a ridge to create what is known as a 'cottage' roof.

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