Site of Isolation Hospital NE of Hill Crest Lodge
Description of this historic site
The site of an isolation hospital which was built during the Imperial period. The site is located 100m north of Hill Crest Lodge. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1922.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Site of isolation hospital marked on OS map of 1922.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
My mother, Dylis Ladwiniec nee Hughes, now 94 years of age, worked there as a State Enrolled Nurse during World War 2.
Further to the above; the patients (very few in number because of the size of the place and the lack of isolation cubicles) were mainly children suffering from diphtheria or scarlet fever. Their parents were not allowed direct contact but could look at them through the windows. Three German PoWs from Merevale, with suspected diphtheria, were patients there for a time. It transpired they were not suffering from this but they were detained for far longer than necessary because the GP from Atherstone, Dr Henry Fisher (brother of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher) forgot about them! They were usefully employed by the matron, maintaining the gardens. Only three nurses were on site and they did not work full nights, only ‘sleeping duties’.
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