Isolation Hospital, Ainsworth, Bury

AINSWORTH, LANCS.- The new hospital which has been erected at Ainsworth, for the Bury and District Joint Hospital Board, for the treatment of smallpox cases, was opened on Wednesday week. The site is on a hillside, and the outlay has been over £7,000. The main pavilion block consists of two wards - male and female - each capable of accommodating six beds, and with a duty room in the middle from which the wards can be overlooked. There is an isolation ward, which is to be fitted with four beds -two for males and two for females - for the reception of doubtful cases, and an administrative block with rooms for a matron, doctor, and four nurses. There is also a discharge building, a laundry, disinfecting rooms, mortuary, etc. The buildings have been erected to the designs of Mr H. Lord, of Salford, by Messrs Thompson and Brierley, of Bury. They are designed in a simple Renaissance style. and built of stock bricks, with a sparing use of terra cotta ornamentation. The lighting is by gas, and the wards are heated with warm air stoves. With the exception of the administrative block, all the buildings are one storeyed. [Building News 5 October 1906 Page 490]

Reference    Manchester Courier 9 December 1904 page 10
Reference    Builder 18 February 1905 page 192
Reference    Building News 5 October 1906 Page 490