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Description: | 28th July 1914.
View of the foundations for the new Smallpox ward looking north-west across Wykebeck Valley in 1914. The Killingbeck Hall Estate was sold by Mrs Meynell Ingram in December 1898. The main hospital, originally intended to treat Smallpox, was built on the 144 acre site and opened in the September of 1904. A decision was made to convert the hospital for the treatment of Tuberculosis in 1912/13 in line with the National Health Insurance Act. It became known as Killingbeck Municipal Sanatorium, specialising in Tuberculosis cases. This image shows the beginnings of the construction of a small, temporary hospital, just a single ward, solely for patients with Smallpox, which was built at the same time as the conversion. The compound was separate from the main Tuberculosis sanatorium. Plans were allowed to go through on the proviso that the main hospital would be immediately vacated should there be an epidemic of Smallpox which could not be managed with the temporary smaller facilities of the Smallpox hospital. Additional information supplied by John Garnett (Source: The 50th Anniversary booklet of the opening of Seacroft and Killingbeck Hospitals, 1954.) | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Smallpox construction site Tuberculosis Killingbeck Hospital | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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