Fever Hospitals on Teesside

Redwurzel

Redwurzel

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I remember family tales of an uncle having to go to Flatts Lane Fever Hospital (Normanby) when he was 7 because he had scarlett fever and a grandad who died at Grey Towers Hospital (Nunthorpe) where there was a TB isolation hospital (he died of throat cancer brought on by working in a open cabin crane at Cargo Fleet Works. The Flatts Lane hospital building is still there opposite Tittybottle park.

Teesside must have been hit hard by Spanish Flu and a lot of contagious diseases in the past due to crowded housing and poverty and I would imagine had quite a few isolation facilities.

Anyone know any history on these facilities?
 
I spent 6 weeks in isolation at West Lane Hospital in mid 60s (think it was then a foreign &Contagious disease hospital), being treated for Scarlet Fever, turned out symptoms had been caused by the surgeon at North Ormesby (ear, nose and throat hospital) having left the swab in my throat when having my tonsils out a five days earlier. Only found out when I woke up choking in the middle of the night, pressed the alarm and luckily by time nurse arrived I had coughed it up. I was 7 at the time.
 
Unicorn you are probably right on West Lane - I stayed there for a week when I was 6 with a bad bout of whooping cough.
 
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