Catalogue description RECORDS OF ST MARK'S HOSPITAL, MAIDENHEAD, AND MAIDENHEAD ISOLATION HOSPITAL

This record is held by Royal Berkshire Archives

Details of D/H3
Reference: D/H3
Title: RECORDS OF ST MARK'S HOSPITAL, MAIDENHEAD, AND MAIDENHEAD ISOLATION HOSPITAL
Description:

Records of St Mark's Hospital, Maidenhead, 1946-1978, and of Maidenhead Isolation Hospital, 1940-1975
Date: 1940-1978
Related material:

1948-1974 Maidenhead Hospitals house committee minutes (including St Mark's Hospital and Maidenhead Isolation Hospital). D/H1/2/1-10
Held by: Royal Berkshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

St Mark's Hospital, Maidenhead, 1948-

Maidenhead Isolation Hospital
Physical description: (8 vols, 2 docs)
Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited in March 1995 (acc. 5589); in December 1995 (acc. 5722).

 

Acc. 5589: D/H3 1/1/1; D/H3 1/2/4; D/H3 1/3/1; D/H3 2/1/1-4

 

Acc. 5722: D/H3 1/2/1-3
Subjects:
  • Maidenhead, Berkshire
  • Health services
Administrative / biographical background:

St Mark's Hospital, Maidenhead, was established in 1948 on the formation of the National Health Service. It was previously Maidenhead Workhouse and Poor Law Institution. For records of this period, see G/M. The building was erected in the 1860s.

 

Maidenhead Isolation Hospital was built after World War I to treat cases of diptheria, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, scarlet fever and other infectious diseases. Patients were admitted from Maidenhead, Cookham rural district, Easthampstead, Eton, Slough, Windsor and Wokingham.
Link to NRA Record:

Have you found an error with this catalogue description?

Help with your research