Catalogue description Penistone Isolation Hospital, Penistone

Finance

NHS24/1/1 Committee ledger, 1926 - 1948

NHS24/1/2 Petty cash book, 1945 - 1948

Penistone Joint Hospital Board

NHS24/2 Financial statement and papers, 1948

Penistone RDC Health and Sanitary Committee (Public Health Committee post 1956) records, 1946 - 1961 (SY3RD5/1-4)

Barnsley Hospital Management Committee records, 1948 - 1974 (NHS39, formerly SY306)

Sheffield Regional Hospital Board minutes and accounts, 1948 - 1974 (NHS27)

Penistone RDC: register of notifications of infectious diseases, 1959 - 1967 (NHS4/2/1)

Penistone UDC: register of notifications of infectious diseases, 1959 - 1967 (NHS4/3/1)

Hospital statistics: Stanhope Hospital, Penistone, 1966 - 1977 (NHS5/1/4/1, 8)

Hospital statistics: Ophthalmic Clinic, Penistone, 1966 - 1980 (NHS5/1/4/1, 8)

John Mendelson, MP for Penistone: correspondence with Barnsley AHA, including re closure of Stanhope Hospital, 1976 - 1978 (SY360/J6/17)

Penistone Isolation Hospital, Penistone

Hospital Survey: Sheffield and East Midlands area and Ministry of Health, 1945 (Sheffield Local Studies 362 SQ)

• Penistione Infectious Diseases Hospital

Penistone and Thurlstone Joint Smallpox Isolation Hospital, 1897 - 1929

Penistone Infectious Diseases Hospital / Penistone Isolation Hospital, 1929 - 1948

Penistone Hospital, 1948 - c. 1962

[Stanhope Hospital, c. 1965 - 1977]

Under the Public Health Act, 1875, the Local Government Board could authorise two or more local authorities to act jointly in the provision of hospital accommodation for epidemic diseases. Penistone District Isolation Hospital Committee was set up in 1897 and comprised twenty members taken from the Urban District Councils of Penistone, Thurlstone, Denby & Cumberworth, Clayton West, Hoyland Swaine, and Gunthwaite & Ingbirchworth, and all the Rural District Councils in Penistone Union. It had a resident Medical Officer.

At the establishment of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, the hospital was managed by Barnsley Hospital Management Committee (HMC) of Sheffield Regional Hospital Board (SRHB). Its hospitals were grouped under two House Committees: No 1 included & apos;Penistone Public Assistance Hospital& apos; No 2 included Stanhope Infectious Diseases Hospital and the County TB Dispensary at Penistone. Matters concerning Penistone Isolation Hospital were raised at No 1 House Committee.

Barnsley HMC applied to Sheffield Regional Hospital Board in August 1948 with a request to use Penistone Isolation Hospital as an annexe to the Beckett Hospital. At that time there were no patients at the Isolation Hospital and any future patients could be accommodated at the Kendray Isolation Hospital. SRHB recommended the immediate closure of Penistone Isolation Hospital and that the premises be used as an annexe to the Beckett Hospital as from October 1948. An adult chest clinic was retained in Penistone until c. 1962.

HMCs were abolished following reorganisation of the NHS in 1974, and hospital management fell to Barnsley Area Health Authority, within Trent Regional Health Authority.