Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
Record types
- Administrative
- 1896 - 1948
- General
- 1896 - 1948
- Finance
- 1896 - 1931
Finding aids
- Finding aids
- Brief guide (BG), Catalogue
- Location
- At Repository (AR)
- Details
- At Repository: CAT: HI12
Hospital
Watford General Hospital (Holywell Wing)
Last updated .
Important information
Information about this hospital might be outdated.
Details
- Previous Names
- Watford and District Isolation Hospital (1896 - 1948)
- Holywell Hospital (1948 - 1968)
- Address
- Tolpits Lane, Watford, WD1 8QE
- Foundation Year
- 1895
- Status
- Closed (since 1982)
Administrative Authorities
- Regional Board (1948-1974)
- North West Metropolitan
- Management Committee (1948-1974)
- West Hertfordshire
- Regional Authority (1974-1982)
- North West Thames
- Regional Authority (Post-1982)
- North West Thames
- District Authority (1974-1982)
- South West
- District Authority (Post-1982)
- South West Hertfordshire
- Pre-1974 County
- Hertfordshire
- Post-1974 County
- Hertfordshire
- Post-1996 County
- Not applicable
Status
- Pre-1948
- Local Authority
- Pre-1948 information
- LA: 1898 - 1899 Watford Urban and Rural District Council, 1899 - 1930 also Rickmansworth Urban District Council, by 1930 - 1948 also Bushey and Chorleywood Urban District Councils.
- Post-1948
- NHS
Type
- Pre-1948
- Isolation
- Post-1948
- Geriatric, Other
- Post-1948 information
- OTHER: Chest and isolation.
Other information
The Watford and District Isolation Hospital was opened in 1896, in Tolpits Lane, Watford by the Watford Joint Hospital Board at a cost of £12,058. It consisted of two wards and two isolation blocks with a total of forty-two beds. In 1904 the hospital was enlarged to a total of 66 beds. The Joint Hospital Board also made arrangements to use the Holywell Hospital as a smallpox hospital. The hospital was further extended in 1934 to 100 beds at a cost of £26,000. The hospital became part of Watford General Hospital in 1968 and was fully absorbed by that hospital in 1982.