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After the London Fever Hospital was established in 1802, six more hospitals were established in London by the Metropolitan Asylums Board.These were designed with two separate buildings – one for smallpox patients and one for sufferers from other infectious diseases: cholera, diphtheria, dysentery, measles, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, typhus and whooping cough.
Barry contributed many papers on vaccination, fever, and similar subjects to the London Medical and Physical Journal, 1800–1 (vols. iii., iv., and vi.); to Dr. Harty's History of the Contagious Fever Epidemics in Ireland in 1817, 1818, and 1819, Dublin, 1820; to Barker and Cheyne's Fever in Ireland, Dublin, 1821; and to the Transactions of ...
Haygarth did not abandon his research into fever patients, however. He performed several experiments and determined that separating fever patients within a hospital reduced mortality rates. When his plan was put into effect in Chester in 1783, the first fever wards in Britain, all except one of the 30 fever patients recovered.
The new hospital, which was designed by Charles Fowler, opened in 1848. [3] By 1924 it had about 150 beds. [4] A new wing was opened by the Duchess of York in 1928 and a new isolation block was opened by the Duke of Kent in 1938. [2] In 1948, the hospital joined the National Health Service under the same management as the Royal Free Hospital. [2]
The voluntary hospital movement began in the early 18th century, with hospitals being founded in London by the 1710s and 20s, including Westminster Hospital (1719) promoted by the private bank C. Hoare & Co and Guy's Hospital (1724) funded from the bequest of the wealthy merchant, Thomas Guy. Other hospitals sprang up in London and other ...
The hospital was extended between 1817 and 1819 to help cope with a national epidemic. Three thousand cases were admitted to the hospital in one month in 1818. [6] Another typhus epidemic hit Dublin in 1826. In the hospital, 10,000 people were treated for the infection.
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1820 Savannah yellow fever epidemic 1820 Savannah, Georgia, United States Yellow fever: 700 [132] 1821 Barcelona yellow fever epidemic 1821 Barcelona, Spain Yellow fever: 5,000–20,000 [133] [134] Second cholera pandemic: 1826–1837 Asia, Europe, North America Cholera: 100,000+ [135] 1828–1829 New South Wales smallpox epidemic 1828–1829