Catalogue description SISTERS HOSPITAL - ST ALBANS

Records of the Sisters Hospital, St Albans, 1936-1948

The Sisters Hospital (also known as the Sisters Hospital for Infectious Diseases) was built by Sir J Blundell Maple bart, M.P. at a cost of £5000 for the benefit of those inhabitants of the city and its immediate environs who had infectious diseases. He had recognised the need for an isolation hospital when his two daughters, after whom the hospital was named, died of scarlet fever. He and his wife, Lady Maple, presented the hospital to the City of St Albans by whom it was administered. All patients were treated free of charge. A diphtheria block was added in 1911. In 1936, under the provisions of the Public Health Act 1936 the St Albans Joint Hospital Board was formed. This consisted of representatives of St Albans City Council, Harpenden Urban District Council, Welwyn Garden City Urban District Council and St Albans Rural District Council. The hospital was first built in Folly Mead in St Albans and in 1938 moved to Folly Avenue.

In 1948, on the creation of the National Health Service, the Sisters Hospital was absorbed by the St Albans City Hospital and this came under the control of the Mid-Herts Group Hospital Management Committee of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board.

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