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The need to isolate patients with infectious diseases was recognised from early times.

See more about the Leper House and the Pest House in Hungerford.

Isolation hospitals for infectious diseases other than smallpox were built at Newbury (Wash Common), Hungerford, Maidenhead, Wallingford, Henley, Cippenham and Reading. All were built by local authorities and paid for out of the rates.


The Hungerford Isolation Hospital was built well away from the town, south of Sanham Green, near the junction with the Salisbury Road (see map on right). The small single storey building of timber clad with corrugated iron was demolished in the 1940s. See also: - Care & Compassion - Old Prints and Photographs of Hospitals and Nurses in Berkshire and South Oxfordshire 1839-1930. Margaret Railton & Marshall Barr, 2000.

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	The ward during the First World War



	From OS map of Sanham Green, 1926 Isolation Hospital shown near bottom left.

Updated: 30.5.2010