Does anyone know anything about the Fever Hospital, in Newton, Ayrshire, around 1844? Would it have been a place where the sick were forcibly quarantined during epidemics? Was it created for a specific epidemic (e.g. cholera?) Or just a part of a normal hospital?
I'm assuming that those with enough money to pay a doctor to make house calls would have avoided hospitals if possible. My ancestors here certainly didn't have money - the one I'm looking for, who died around 1844, was a hand-loom weaver; the mother of his children was in 1851 a "Hand Cotton Loom Weaver / Pauper".
Does anyone know of surviving records of this hospital?
This is what I have, from the Kirk Session records of Newton:
Newton 2nd May 1844.
Janet Shaw compeared & acknowledged herself guilty of trilapse in fornication with John Frew lately de-ceased. Grace Brown nurse in the Fever Hospital appeared & affirmed that John Frew on his death bed acknowledged himself the father of the last, as he had been of the two former Children of Janet Shaw.
Fever Hospital, Newton, Ayrshire.....
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See below from http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report ... mpid=43420
The hospital for the poor, or Poor's House, was erected in 1759, at the expense of the corporation, aided by subscription, for the reception of the infirm and helpless poor; it is conducted by a master and a mistress with a salary of £80. A dispensary was established in 1817, which afforded medicinal assistance to more than 500 patients annually, and a fever hospital, recently built, has been united to it; the subscriptions amount to about £300 per annum.
From: 'Ayr - Ayton', A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland (1846), pp. 84-91. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report ... mpid=43420. Date accessed: 10 June 2006.
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The hospital for the poor, or Poor's House, was erected in 1759, at the expense of the corporation, aided by subscription, for the reception of the infirm and helpless poor; it is conducted by a master and a mistress with a salary of £80. A dispensary was established in 1817, which afforded medicinal assistance to more than 500 patients annually, and a fever hospital, recently built, has been united to it; the subscriptions amount to about £300 per annum.
From: 'Ayr - Ayton', A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland (1846), pp. 84-91. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report ... mpid=43420. Date accessed: 10 June 2006.
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