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Courtesy of Cambridgeshire Collection, H.Inf.K30 3071

Infectious Diseases Hospital / Isolation Hospital / Brookfields Hospital, Cambridge

The Cambridge Isolation Hospital and its evolution

The Cambridge Infectious Diseases Hospital was built in 1884. It was later renamed the Cambridge Borough Isolation Hospital and later, in 1947, Brookfields Hospital. In 1913 its surgeon was Frederick Webb.

Photographs of staff and patients at the Cambridge Isolation Hospital, from the Cambridge Chronicle and University Journal, 17 September 1930.

Courtesy of Cambridgeshire Collection

Courtesy of Cambridgeshire Collection, , H.Inf.K30 3071.

Courtesy of Cambridgeshire Collection

Courtesy of Cambridgeshire Collection, H.Inf.K30 3071f.

1933

There was a scarlet fever epidemic in Foxton and quite a number of schoolchildren were taken to Brookfield. (Don Challis, Schooldays in Foxton)

The Brookfields Hospital site photographed in 2013.

© Mill Road History

© Mill Road History

© Mill Road History

© Mill Road History

© Mill Road History

© Mill Road History

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1913

Miss Wright, Matron

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