Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
Record types
- Administrative
- 1877 - 1949
- General
- 1877 - 1948
- Finance
- 1898 - 1949
Finding aids
- Finding aids
- Brief guide (BG), Catalogue
- Location
- At Repository (AR)
- Details
- At Repository: CAT: HI1
Hospital
Aldbury Infectious Diseases Hospital
Last updated .
Important information
Information about this hospital might be outdated.
Details
- Previous Names
- Aldbury Joint Isolation Hospital (c.1930 - 1948)
- Berkhampstead Infectious Diseases Hospital
- Address
- Newground Road, Aldbury
- Foundation Year
- 1871
- Status
- Closed (since 1948)
Administrative Authorities
- Regional Board (1948-1974)
- Not Applicable
- Management Committee (1948-1974)
- Not Applicable
- 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
- Hertfordshire
- Post-1974 County
- Not Applicable
- Post-1996 County
- Not applicable
Status
- Pre-1948
- Local Authority
- Pre-1948 information
- LA: 1871 - 1898 Berkhampstead Sanitary Authority, Berkhampstead Urban and Rural District Council, ? - 1901 Tring Urban District Council.
Type
- Pre-1948
- Isolation
Other information
Aldebury Isolation Hospital was built in 1871 by the Berhamsted Sanitary Authorities for the use of the inmates of the Berkamsted Union. It had 16 beds in 1871 although by 1948 that number had increased to 24. The hospital was situated in Newground Road. On 13 June 1898 the Aldbury Hospital Joint Committee took responsibility for the Hospital. It held its first meeting on 13 June 1898, and consisted of three members of Berhamsted Rural District Council, three members of Great Berkhamsted Urban District council and three members of Tring Urban District council. In 1902 Tring Isolation Hospital and Aldbury combined services, with Tring taking all the smallpox cases and Aldbury all the scarlet fever cases. It was used during the First World War as a military hospital. In 1948 when the National Health Service was created the future of Aldbury Hospital was uncertain; however, in September 1948 the hospital was closed.