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'Northfleet Isolation Hospital off Springhead Road, Northfleet, Kent DA11 8EA Medical dates:1887 ? - 1939 Medical character: Isolation, Infectious diseases Just before the end of the 19th century Northfleet Urban District Council built a smallpox hospital with 6 beds a mile or so to the north of the Gravesend Sanatorium. (NB I don't agree - Dobson Road, where Gravesend Sanatorium was located, is about 2.5 miles / 4 km south east of here: Kentishman.) Not much is known about this Hospital, but it probably received smallpox patients until the River Hospitals (Long Reach, Orchard and Joyce Green) opened in the 1900s. The Hospital continued to be available for infectious diseases patients, as necessary, until the outbreak of WW2 in 1939. Present status (March 2012)' The Hospital buildings were eventually demolished and the site became a recreation ground until the area was redeveloped for new housing.' The above is from 'Lost London Hospitals' - https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/northfleet.html See OS 25" to mile map of 1909 : https://maps.nls.uk/view/103676171
I have doubts about the above assertion that the hospital was in use or available for use until 1939. From the position, size and outline of the hospital on the 1909 OS map, there is no trace of it or its remains in this 1939 photograph. It would therefore appear to have been demolished much earlier than stated.
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