re White Hoe - There was a great need for a hospital for infectious diseases finally in 1888 the White Hoe Hospital was opened.

re Brown bobby
see http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/manx/iomnhas/v054p411.htm
The earliest mention of the BROWN BOBBY which I have found is in 1837, but it was probably in existence long before that date. Photographs, taken many years ago, show it to have been a low, whitewashed cottage with a steeply sloping roof of tiny slates. It is said — with what truth I know not — to have obtained its name from the fact that a well-known brown hunter of the name of Bobby was once stabled there, and it stood where a petrol station which has taken its name now marks the spot — at the junction of Peel Road and Circular Road. A strong local tradition avers that it was here that funerals on the way to Kirk Braddan halted, so that the corpse, carried thus far on the shoulders of bearers, might be transferred to a vehicle for the remainder of its journey; while the bearers, no doubt, took the opportunity to obtain refreshment and comfort, for — as an old writer has it — ‘excessive sorrow is exceeding dry'.
(ps plugging brown bobby into my search engine at http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/manx/search.htm would find it