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Description: | 27th August 1914.
View looking north west across Wykebeck Valley and showing the single isolation unit for the treatment of Smallpox in the process of being constructed. It was entirely separate to the main Killingbeck Sanatorium, which, during the same period, was converted for the treatment of Tuberculosis in line with the National Health Insurance Act. The single ward became known as the Killingbeck Smallpox Hospital. The compound for the treatment of Smallpox included the buildings of Killingbeck Farm, a small mortuary and an administration block. If there had been an epidemic of Smallpox and the single ward had been unable to cope with the case-load then it was understood that the main Killingbeck Sanatorium would need to be vacated. However, it was never necessary to put these plans into place. 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 Killingbeck Sanatorium Tuberculosis hospital | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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