Queen Victoria Building be established here." In 1897, the Council resolved to "dedicate the new market buildings", then still under construction, to Queen Victoria and to name them The Queen Victoria Market Buildings in commemoration of her Diamond Jubilee: The Councillors decided not to ask for the Queen's assent, in part because it would have made it "necessary to have the Royal Coat of Arms on the building". After the markets originally held in the building were relocated in 1910, the name was amended in 1918 to "Queen Victoria Buildings". Finally, in 1987, the Council rescinded the 1918 resolution and named it the
Victoria Jubilee Hospital Victoria Jubilee Hospital Victoria Jubilee Hospital initially known as the Victoria Jubilee Lying-In Hospital was founded in 1891 and opened to the public in 1892 in Kingston, Jamaica. The current facility, the largest maternity hospital in the English-speaking Caribbean, features 248 beds and delivers around 8,000 babies annually. As a tribute to Queen Victoria in memory of her Golden Jubilee, the Victoria Jubilee Lying-In Hospital began as a public subscription project and was then endowed by the Government of Jamaica. It was planned as a public hospital for poor women to provide them with suitable food and lodging, and medical