Staff and History - Wilderness Isolation Hospital (General)
According to my grandmother, my great-great grandmother Eliza Workman (nee Dobbs) worked in an isolation hospital. ?1870s/80s
The family lived in Mitcheldean, so at a guess it was the old The Wilderness Isolation Hospital,especially as there is a story of her coming home (against the rules) to see her children, leaving her work clothes in the coalhouse.
Are there any records still available about the hospital or the staff that worked there? (I see it's now an out-of-bound centre).
I also see from your forum there was also another one at Little Dean?
Thank you,
Anna
Staff and History - Isolation hospital at Littledean
by Andrew Bluett 
, Sunday, May 01, 2011, 00:45 (4963 days ago) @ annabarton
The isolation hospital at Littledean was in George Lane, about 1 mile outside the village towards the Flaxley / Mitcheldean road (north). The building is still there, now a private house but I'm not aware of any records in existence relating to staff etc. The hospital was a typical victorian establishment, meant primarily for those suffering from TB.
Staff and History - Isolation hospital at Littledean
by m p griffiths , Sunday, May 01, 2011, 08:15 (4962 days ago) @ Andrew Bluett
There may be census records.
On the 1891 census, Mitcheldean, District 32, page 26 of 26
next to the Congregational Chapel
Wildernefs
Arthur BALDWIN - head M 30 - Gardener Domestic Servant, born Glos. Mitcheldean
Emily wife - age 29, born Longhope
James Son - 7 - Scholar, born Mitcheldean
George - 6 - ditto
Henry - 4 - ditto (christened at Drybrook 1 August 1886 - residence The Wilderness)
Ernest - 3 ditto
Kate - 1 - ditto
Annie - 3 months - ditto
Elizabeth REED - Servant - as - General Servant, born Glos. Taynton.
If you use the Advance Search - burials e.g. : The Wilderness or Wilderness : there are about 17 inc.
Heenrietta DAVIES 1877, The Wilderness age 86
Mary Ann COOK 1837, The Wilderness Abenhall age 31
Maynard COLCHESTER 1860, The Wilderness, Mitcheldean, age 74
Ann Turner BROWN - 1917 - The Wilderness, Abenhall age 78 years
Emily Ima ELLWAY, - 1932 - Hospital The Wilderness, Alvenhall - age 8
Wilderness seems to be in different places i.e. Cinderford St John, Abinghall, Mitcheldean, Alvenhall
Staff and History - Isolation hospital at Littledean
by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Wednesday, May 04, 2011, 23:11 (4959 days ago) @ m p griffiths
Re the location of "The Wilderness", I only know of one and that's the aforementioned centre on Plump Hill overlooking Mitcheldean. Wrt the census this is clearly the Abenhall / Abinghall locations. Extensive searches of internet, minds & books find no reference whatsoever to Alvenhall, I'm sure this is just another variation of Abenhall, perhaps a transcription misread. Similarly I know of no Wilderness near Cinderford St Johns though await correction, maybe the rocky outcrops below the church area ?, but no hospital.
For more references to the two FoD Isolation Hospitals see this link written in 2004 by our friend Slowhands.
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ENG-GLOS-FOREST-DEAN/2004-11/1100936249
While researching these locations I was pleased to learn my first place of employment as a Rank Xerox apprentice in 1978, the old Wintle's Brewery, was built 110 years earlier from red sandstone from the Wilderness Quarry. Indeed, it seems the original Mitcheldean Manor House of the late 1600s was at Court Farm which was swallowed by Ranks warehousing re-development in the 70s.