Infectious Diseases Hospital/ The Vineries / Isolation Hospital / Brookfields Hospital, Cambridge

The Cambridge Isolation Hospital and its evolution

The Cambridge Infectious Diseases Hospital was built in 1884. In 1913 the premises are known both as ‘Infectious Diseases Hospital” and as ‘The Vineries.” The Vineries was also the name given to Verandah Cottage.

1891 Hospital

William Kirkham Baker, 28, custodian of Hospital and Public Disinfection, b Cambridge

Sarah Jane, 32, b Herts

Frances Catherine Walker, 31, sick nurse, b Dublin

Grace Sophia Bidwell, 8, b Cambridge

Harriet Radford,16, servant, b Cambridge

1913 (Kellys)

Infectious Diseases Hospital, The Vineries

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, , H.Inf.K30 3071.

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

Census

1913

Miss Wright, Matron

Further Information

• Download the full article on ‘Infectious Disease in Cambridge: The Cambridge Isolation Hospital and its evolution’ by Pat Richards, 1991
• http://www.creatingmycambridge.com/history-stories/victorian-isolation-hospital/
• The architect was Edwin Bays (1843 – 1909)