File NLW ex 2845. - Smallpox unit at Penarth hospital,

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NLW ex 2845.

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Smallpox unit at Penarth hospital,

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  • 1967, 1970, 2009. (Creation)

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1 wallet.

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Mr A. Michael George; Cardiff; Donation; February 2014; 006704831.

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Bound report by H. F. H. Dolling, engineer to the Welsh Hospital Board, November 1970, relating to the adaptation of St Mary’s Hospital, Penarth, as a smallpox unit, including his drawings. It was the last smallpox hospital to be built in the UK before its eradication in 1977. Also included is a memorandum prepared from memory in 2009 by Professor Gareth Crompton, Chief Medical Officer for Wales, 1978-1989, and then Professor of Public Health at the University of Wales College of Medicine, which deals with the smallpox outbreak in Church Village and Bridgend in 1962.

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Preferred citation: NLW ex 2845.

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  • English

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  • Text: NLW ex 2845.