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Description: | 23 January 1905
Situated off Beckett Street, between Arthur Street and Burns Street. It had been built to isolate and treat victims of infectious diseases, The cost was ?7,000 in 1846. An epidemic of Typhus Fever in 1847 overwhelmed the hospital, the fatalities included a number of clergymen who had cared for the sick, a cholera outbreak in 1848/9 killed 1,674 people in Leeds. An outbreak of typhus in 1865/66 swamped the hospital with over 600 patients. The house of recovery was proving inadequate, the council had bought the site in 1885, with plans to replace it, Seacroft Hospital was built to treat victims of infectious diseases, The recovery house site became a recreation ground which has since been built on. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Hospital Beckett Street | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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