Today who can imagine that six hospitals were numbered in Port-Louis during the last three centuries?

1. A "barn used as an almshouse" , in 1668
2. St Louis hospital - 1689
3. The citadel hospital
4. The general hospital - 1706
5. The hospital for venereal patients
6. The Navy hospital

From the end of the XVIIth century to the end of the XXth century, scattered in the suburbs of the city, these institutions stood active during very different periods, which makes their history quite complicated.