Infectious Diseases Hospital Bromley Kent

The Bromley and Beckenham Joint Isolation Hospital opened in Lower Gravel Road in 1885 as a fever hospital.  (This section of Lower Gravel Road became known locally as Hospital Road, before being renamed Lennard Road around 1935). During the 1920s a new Hospital was built on the site.  As it received patients referred from the whole of west Kent, it was renamed the West Kent Isolation Hospital and by 1944 it had 118 beds and cots.

PROPOSED HOSPITAL FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES, BROMLEY (KENT) - A meeting of the Bromley and Beckenham Joint Hospital Board was hold on the 7th inst., Sir J. F. Lennard, bart., presiding. The Board were occupied a considerable time in considering the plans which had been sent in for the proposed infectious hospital by Mr. Ladds, of Chapel Street, Bedford Row; Mr. G. St. Pierre Harris, Orpington; Mr. W. R. Mallett, Bromley; Mr. Bartlett, Beckenham; and Messrs. C. & F. Rutley, Dowgate Hill. The whole of these competitors were unanimous in the opinion that the work as proposed by the Board could not be carried out for the sum of £4,000 as suggested. Some of them submitted alternative plans, whereon certain modifications were shown, and Mr. Ladds forwarded a plan of a building similar to the one suggested by the Board, the cost of which he estimated at £4,660. After a lengthened consultation Mr. Batten proposed, Mr. Payne seconded, and it was carried unanimously, that the plans and designs of Mr. Ladds should be accepted conditionally, and that he be asked to attend a committee meeting of the whole Board, to be held next Wednesday. A cheque was drawn for £1,703 6s. 5d. for the purchase of the hospital site. {Builder 15 September 1883 page 367]

Builder 15 September 1883 page 367