Forest of Dean FHT Forum - Isolation Hospital.

Isolation Hospital. (reply)

norman — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:28:10 +0000

Over was also used for scarlet fever. My mother was isolated there because her younger brother actually caught it . I can only say that this must have been after 1923

Isolation Hospital. (reply)

slowhands — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:49:00 +0000

I'll speculate TB or Consumption - be interesting to see if the Death Cert has more

Isolation Hospital. Over Gloucester (reply)

essie — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:20:05 +0000

Thanks again slowhands for your help and prompt reply. It will be interesting to get my great-aunt's death certificate to see what she died from.

Esther

Isolation Hospital. Over Gloucester (reply)

slowhands — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:44:18 +0000

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.

City Hospital in Over

essie — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:27:31 +0000

Does anyone know anything about the City Hospital in Over. According to the Parish Records a great-aunt of mine, Florence Bennett, was residing there when she died in 1922 aged 29.

Esther