Small Pox Hospital, Middlesex

[Stephen Evans]

Hi All,

I have an Ancestor a Sarah Jane Repington sadly dying of Small Pox on the 4th May 1831. The register reads that she died at a Small Pox hospital in or somewhere around Islington in Middlesex.
Does any kind person out there have any information on this hospital out there ?

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[Marie C..]

it would have been the fever hospital in grays inn road. later a new one was built in 1850 on liverpool road islington. try british-history.ac.uk. please excuse lack of capitals.marie

[Peter Goodey]

The 1861 census includes within the parish of St Mary, Islington, the "Small Pox and Vaccination Hospital, Highgate Hill, Upper Holloway"

[Peter Goodey]

nhshistory.net/smallpox_and_fever_hospitals.htm#The%20Smallpox%20 Hospital

The Smallpox Hospital

In 1746, by ‘the benevolence of a few generous individuals’, a charity was established to receive persons of all ages and denominations who were suffering from smallpox. The charity intended not merely to provide every facility for treatment, but also to study alternative methods of treating the disease. A house was taken in Windmill Street, Tottenham Court Road, and was soon filled. Others were procured in Coldbath Fields and Old Street.2 Expansion proved necessary and Rocque’s map of London (1769) shows the new smallpox hospital at Battle Bridge, where King’s Cross Station now stands. It was rebuilt yet again in 1846 as the London Smallpox and Vaccination Hospital on Highgate Hill in Upper Holloway and the building now forms part of the Whittington Hospital. Patients were admitted by presentation of a governor’s letter, or from the hospitals and workhouses of London on the payment of a fixed sum.

[Stephen Evans]

Many thanks all for your interesting replies and I have to say sad reading, what a terrible thing to have gone through.|sad1|

Cheers
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