Oakwell Hospital Explained

Oakwell Hospital
Founded:1948
Beds:90
Country:England
State:West Riding of Yorkshire
Location:Birstall

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]

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Notes and References

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

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