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Details
Previous Names
The Deans Isolation Hospital (1883 - c.1948)
Address
Dean Road, South Shields, NE33 5LG
Foundation Year
1883
Status
Open
Administrative Authorities
Regional Board (1948-1974)
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Management Committee (1948-1974)
South Shields
Regional Authority (1974-1982)
Northern
Regional Authority (Post-1982)
Northern
District Authority (1974-1982)
South Tyneside
District Authority (Post-1982)
South Tyneside
Pre-1974 County
Durham
Post-1974 County
Tyne and Wear
Post-1996 County
Not applicable
Status
Pre-1948
Local Authority
Post-1948
NHS
Type
Pre-1948
Isolation, Tuberculosis
Post-1948
Geriatric, Other
Post-1948 information
OTHER: Tuberculosis, Chronic care.
Other information
The Deans Isolation Hospital was founded in 1883 with 57 beds and is recorded in Burdetts Hospitals and Charities 1929 as being under the management of South Shields County Borough for the treatment of infectious diseases, other than smallpox. After 1948 it specialised in the treatment of tuberculosis. Its function was subsequently changed in about 1967 to the treatment of chronic illness.