In 1897 the corporation began a new infectious diseases hospital outside the city at Over. The new hospital was not for smallpox and when it opened in 1903 (fn. 101) the Stroud Road hospital was closed and many of its buildings were transferred to Field Farm near Longford as a smallpox hospital. (fn. 102) During the smallpox epidemic of 1923 the corporation adapted buildings on the airfield in Brockworth for the treatment of patients. (fn. 103) The Longford hospital, which had 18 beds, (fn. 104) was enlarged in 1926, by the addition of buildings from the Monk Meadow cholera hospital, and was closed in 1947. (fn. 105) The buildings were later removed. At the Over hospital a pavilion for tuberculosis patients was provided in 1915 by a joint committee of the city and county councils. Further building had taken place by 1981 (fn. 106) when the hospital had 95 beds, some for geriatric and pre-convalescent cases. (fn. 107)

From: 'Gloucester: Hospitals', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 4: The City of Gloucester (1988), pp. 269-275. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42309 Date accessed: 24 April 2009.

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