Even at the time of his speech the hospital was full with patients. Hard worked had been made at the time of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee to the Victoria Hospital, which had remained overcrowded ever since. He stated that he could remember the time when there was no hospital and there were people who argued that there was no necessity for a hospital in Deal. Hulke said that as one of the doctors practising in the town he wanted to give his experience that a new hospital was necessary. On May 10, 1919, an article was printed following a special public meeting held to make the decision for a new hospital to be built as a war memorial in Deal. Photo - The Deal, Walmer and District Hospital that was located in Wellington Road, Deal. He had attended a meeting of the Hospital Committee and it had been suggested that a public meeting be held to discuss the question of a new hospital being built in Deal, suggesting that a committee be formed to make suggestions in regard to a memorial.
The Mayor said that he had introduced the subject of a war memorial sometime ago, but he was now more at liberty to give more information.
At a Deal Town Council meeting held in February 1919, a circular was read from the Rector of Deal, as Chairman of the Committee of the Deal and Walmer Victoria Hospital, asking for a new hospital as a public war memorial, with Sandwich also being invited to assist in the project.
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