Alnwick Fever Hospital
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Description
".....Then in 1885, there was an event that helped to shift opinion. A railway navvy working on the Alnwick / Cornhill branch at Edlingham was diagnosed with Scarlet Fever. There was nowhere to isolate him. No Fever Hospital had been established, and there was no fever ward in the Alnwick Infirmary. He had to be accomodated in Alnwick Workhouse – where he could not be isolated....It was clear that failing to make provision would not keep infection away from Alnwick. Within 18 months a site for a fever hospital had been identified, in a field off the Wagonway....." -
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Alnwick Civic Society -
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Further information
Link: https://alnwickcivicsociety.org.uk/2020/03/10/alnwick-fever-hospital/
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Added by: Simon Cotterill
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