Oakwell Hospital
Geography
LocationBirstall, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Organisation
TypeFever hospital
Services
Beds90
History
Opened1948
Links
ListsHospitals in England

Oakwell Hospital was originally a fever hospital built on a hill top in Birstall in West Riding of Yorkshire, England, caring for chiefly people with scarlet fever and diphtheria. From 1948 it catered for the elderly and in 1962, the elderly were transferred out as a smallpox outbreak in Bradford necessitated it to be designated for the isolation of cases of smallpox.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ↑ "The National Archives". www.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  2. ↑ "Oakwell Hospital, Birstall (Hansard, 26 February 1962)". api.parliament.uk. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  3. ↑ U.S. Navy Medicine. U.S. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. 1962. p. 29.

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