TB hospital

[dillonking]

Does anybody know whether there was a sanitorium or hospital for TB patients in Dudley, Staffordshire in about 1911-12 please and if so what was the exact address?

[giraffe]

I originally came from Wolverhampton, and there was a Wordesley Sanatorium somewhere off the Kidderminster/Wolverhampton Road, in the Kinver or Enville area. I think Wordesley was actually the name of the (?) village. I don't know what the building is now, at one time it was a small hospital.   Perhaps someone on Rootschat with a better local knowledge of the area will be able to help.
giraffe

[MotoFreako64]

There was an Infectious Disease Hospital in Dudley in 1901, my great grandmother died there with Typhoid, but like you, I'm still trying to work out where it was located.

[dillonking]

This is so frustrating! I wish we could also look up a street on a census to see if there were schools, hospitals etc. in the street.

[bagpuss1971]

I know it's not Dudley, but there was an infectious diseases hospital in Tipton, just down the road from Dudley,it would have been on Bridge Road, the area is now within Tipton Cemetery.

I also believe that Dudley Guest Hospital, opposite the Black Country Museum, also dealt with TB - I have seen a wonderful picture of the patients in there beds out on a balcony area getting some "fresh air", not sure if this may have been classed specifically as an infectious diseases hospital though.

bagpuss 

[dillonking]

Thanks Bagpuss I'll look that up.

[weste]

Prestwood sanatorium

[MotoFreako64]

I have three more possibilities...

There was an Infectious Diseases Hospital on Stallings Lane in Kingswinford which was founded in 1904.

The Dudley Union Workhouse had an infectious disease ward which was separate from the main block. The Workhouse was situated on Burton Road. The buildings eventually became the Burton Road Hospital and the Rosemary Ednam Maternity Hospital (which is where I was born!!).

The third possible comes from a mention in another file in the Dudley Archives. In the records for Tanfields, Solicitors, there are some 1917 building plans regarding... "land on Aston Road, Dudley at the rear of Infectious Diseases Hospital".

I have also been told that there is a letter regarding isolation hospitals' printed in The Blackcountryman, vol.34, no.3, Summer 2001.

[Ria Car]

Does anybody know whether there was a sanitorium or hospital for TB patients in Dudley, Staffordshire in about 1911-12 please and if so what was the exact address?

Yes . It will either be Prestwood or Edgeview Sanitarium in Kinver South Staffs