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The Heavitree isolation hospital, also for a time known as the Exeter Corporation Tuberculosis Sanatorium, [1] was a small pulmonary tuberculosis sanatorium located on Hollow Lane, Exeter, United Kingdom. The site is a few hundred metres to the west of the Whipton Hospital (formerly the Whipton Isolation Hospital).
Sports centre requisitioned for the isolation and care of people infected with coronavirus disease 2019, in Wuhan (China). In hospitals and other medical facilities, an isolation ward is a separate ward used to isolate patients with infectious diseases. Several wards for individual patients are usually placed together in an isolation unit.
Whipton Hospital is a small community hospital, also known as the Exeter Community Hospital (Whipton). It was founded as the Whipton Isolation Hospital in 1913 as a pulmonary tuberculosis sanatorium as part of a network of such facilities, [ 1 ] instigated by the Public Health (Tuberculosis Regulations) 1912.
Isolation wards may need to be hastily improvised during epidemics such as in this image of WHO workers in Lagos, Nigeria managing Ebola patients in 2014. Disease isolation is relevant to the work and safety of health care workers. Health care workers may be regularly exposed to various types of illnesses and are at risk of getting sick.
Lodge Moor Hospital is a former isolation hospital on Redmires Road in the Lodge Moor area of the City of Sheffield, England.The hospital which opened in 1888 and closed in 1994 initially treated Smallpox but soon broadened its treatment to other infectious diseases and in its latter years expanded to provide more general nursing, notably spinal injuries and chest medicine.
The hospital had its origins as an isolation hospital for residents in the Hornsey area, built by the Hornsey Local Board of Health (Municipal Borough of Hornsey). It was located close to Coppetts Wood in Muswell Hill, between 1887 and 1888. [1] It was extended in 1893-1894 and again in 1906. By 1913 it had 25 beds.
The facility was established as an isolation hospital for treating contagious diseases known as Heathcote Hospital in 1887. [1] [2] [3] A nurses' home was built 1937. [1]The hospital started to focus specifically on tuberculosis cases in 1952 and was converted for use as a geriatric hospital in 1959.
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.