Isolation Hospital (30 beds) Penmore, Hasland, near Chesterfield

ISOLATION HOSPITAL, NEAR CHESTERFIELD - A new isolation hospital for the Chesterfield district was opened on the 7th inst. by the Mayoress of Chesterfield. The hospital, which is situated at Penmore, Hasland, has cost £9,400, and it has been erected by a joint committee representing the Chesterfield Corporation and the Urban District Councils of Whittington, Newbold, and Brampton. It comprises five distinct blocks, standing about 20 yards apart, on an extensive site, with a southern aspect, about 200 yards from the Chesterfield and Mansfield main road. The administrative block is a three-story building, with accommodation for eight or nine nurses. Tho scarlet fever block provides sixteen beds, and the enteric fever block ten beds, and there is a third block, with four beds, for cases of diphtheria. There is a laundry for dis¬ infecting clothing. In the upper story of the building for scarlet fever cases is a sun bath. It is a large room, the outer walls and roof of which are mainly composed of glass. In this room juvenile patients will be allowed to play when there is sunshine. On the ground floor of this block are wards which may be used for delirious cases or for private and paying patients. The block for diphtheria cases has two wards, with two beds in each ward. All the buildings are of plain brickwork, and the fever blocks are provided with glass verandahs on the south side. The convalescent patients are provided with a space in which to promenade. Mr. G. E. Bolshaw, of Southport, was the architect, and Mr. D. Brown, of Hasland, had the building contract. [Builder 24 December 1904 page 673]

Reference    British Architect 5 September 1902 Page viii
Reference    Builder 6 September 1902 page 218 – contracts
Reference    Builder 24 December 1904 page 673 - opening