Does anybody know where the Infectious Diseases Hospital was in Dudley? My great grandparents and grand aunt all died there in 1901 and so far my enquiries have been inconclusive. There are three possibilities as far as I can tell... There was an Infectious Diseases Hospital on Stallings Lane in Kingswinford, but that wasn't founded until 1904. The Dudley Union Workhouse had an infectious disease ward which was separate from the main block. The Workhouse was situated on Burton Road. The workhouse buildings eventually became the Burton Road Hospital and the IF ward became the Rosemary Ednam Maternity Hospital (which is where I was born!!). The third possible comes from a mention in another file in the Dudley Archives. In the records for Tanfields, Solicitors, there are some 1917 building plans regarding... "land on Aston Road, Dudley at the rear of Infectious Diseases Hospital".... never heard of that one before
I also believe there were Infectious disease hospitals in Tipton too, but the death certificate for Maggie Taylor and Esther Taylor definitely say "Infectious Diseases Hospital, Dudley" for place of death.Dudley Archives have been doing some research for me but they have drawn a blank and haven't been able to add anything to the knowledge I already have. I have also been told that was is a letter regarding isolation hospitals' printed in The Blackcountryman, vol.34, no.3, Summer 2001... anybody have a copy?
Netherton and Dudley were actually both in Worcestershire at the time, although this hospital and the Burton road Workhouse were in Staffordshire! Great grandma Esther and her daughter Maggie were only in for a few days during February 1901.
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