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Record types
- Administrative
- 1886 - 1891
- Finance
- 1886 - 1891
- Clinical
- 1884 - 1938
Finding aids
- Finding aids
- Brief guide (BG), Card index
- Location
- At Repository (AR)
Hospital
Denton Isolation Hospital
Last updated .
Important information
Information about this hospital might be outdated.
Details
- Previous Names
- Denton Isolation Hospital 1883 - 1948
- It is not known whether Hospital retained its name when taken over by the NHS.
- Also referred to as Port Of London Sanitary Hospital
- Address
- Manor Road adjacent River Thames, Denton, Gravesend
- Foundation Year
- 1883
- Status
- Closed (since 1948)
Administrative Authorities
- Regional Board (1948-1974)
- South East Metropolitan
- Management Committee (1948-1974)
- Group 18 - Seamen's
- Regional Authority (1974-1982)
- Not Applicable
- Regional Authority (Post-1982)
- Not Applicable
- District Authority (1974-1982)
- Not Applicable
- District Authority (Post-1982)
- Not Applicable
- Pre-1974 County
- Kent
- Post-1974 County
- Not Applicable
- Post-1996 County
- Not applicable
Status
- Pre-1948
- Local Authority
- Post-1948
- NHS
- Post-1948 information
- Not known how long it remained open.
Type
- Pre-1948
- Isolation
- Post-1948
- Other
Other information
As the Port of London Health Authoriy, the corporation of London built the Denton Isolation Hospital (the port of London Sanitary Hospital) at Denton, Gravesend, Kent in 1883, to treat cases of infections disease coming into the Thames on incoming ships. Diseases treated there included typhoid, Smallpox, chicken pox, measles, scarlet fever, entenic fever, malanice, bubonic plague and dysentery. The hospital was handed over to the National Health Service in 1948. The Hospital was grouped with other Seamen's Hopitals in the South-East Metropolitan Region, to the Management Committee of which group the cooportation of London was entitled to appoint one member.
Record locations
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- Information on the Hospital can also be found amongst the minutes and papers of the Port Health / Sanitary Committee and the proceedings of the court of common council. (Minutes are annually indered)