Smallpox

Proposed Smallpox Hospital on Bierley Hall Estate - Including papers re purchase of site, correspondence, papers re local inquiry etc.

Letter from John Stanhope to his father Walter Stanhope - telling him of his escape from the Irish rebels, with only the clothes on his back; his wife and daughter died of smallpox, and he fears his Irish Estate is lost (also a later copy of the letter and a printed copy)

Letters written to Miss Mary Warde of Hootton Pagnell - She became the wife of Walter Stanhope of Horsforth. They are from her cousin Mary Warde of Kent, Thomas Warde, Isabella Compton of Doncaster, M Richardson of Bierley, M Barnardiston, P Warde of Hootton Pagnell, Diana Inman of Doncaster, Elizabeth Winn, F Warde, Jer Harrison of Long Preston, and C Sellwood of Billam; mostly about social and domestic matters, important points include the Prince and Princess of Hesse's wedding; descriptions of the lavish furnishings and decorations in various large houses; an outbreak od smallpox at Cambridge; the opening of Preston Guild Hall (?); a new play by Garrick; and Lord Lovat's Trial

Letters from Walter Stanhope to his brother-in-law John Spencer - concerning the birth and death of a son, and the illness of Watty of smallpox

Letter from W Osbaldeston of Grange to Mrs Tempest at her house in Cookes Court in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London - writes about his wife nursing a man with smallpox, and also about rents to be paid. Mentions the weather and has started to plant trees

Letter from William Bancroft, Assistant Overseer of Wadsworth to the Overseers of Tong - concerning the poor relief of James Dewhirst and family, of which one child has died from smallpox, and has another likely to die

Letters to and from Joseph and Hannah Senior, Warren Terrace, Wakefield concerning payment of interest, repairs, a second mortgage, a lock upshop, a case of smallpox and Marsland's trustees from Senior

Includes papers regarding smallpox outbreak in Bradford

Born in 1899, Ralph Wilkinson volunteered for the army and joined the Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1918. Before enlisting he was a mill labourer. He joined as a Private in the Royal Army Service Convoy Regiment, 911 Medical Transport Company attached to the 39th Medical Ambulance Convoy. He was a peerless lorry driver from 16/6/1917 to 31/12/1919 in the Mesopotamian command. The 50 ambulances of the 39th Motor Ambulance Convoy were provided by the United Provinces Special War Fund through the British Red Cross and Order of St John. They cared for the sick and wounded of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force operating on the Euphrates and Tigris front areas of operations and on the Persian Lines of Communication. They evacuated wounded and sick Indian and Russian troops as well as helping the Kurds who brought cholera, typhus and smallpox. From September 1917 to December 1918 the convoy ran 21,989 patients and travelled 545, 9365 miles, and 940 cars passed through the workshops.

Letter from John Lister, Cambridge, to his parents - Wishing to come home to be innoculated against the smallpox epidemic that has surfaced in his College

Letter from John Lister, Cambridge, to his parents - Smallpox in the College

Letter from John Lister, 'from my Garrett', to his parents - The smallpox epidemic; his love for hunting

Records relating to relief given to work people during smallpox epidemic - Gives names and amounts, list of those affected, etc.

Record of infected houses - Detailing diseases [diptheria, dysentry, smallpox, food poisoning, polio and scarlet fever], patients and treatment

Smallpox vaccination notices.

Chartist Co-operative Land Society handbill 1845, poster re model lodging houses c1851, poster re vaccination against smallpox nd

Letter - (1) - (2) Mrs Cools explaining that the children have been prevented from coming to (2)'s school by an outbreak of smallpox but (1) hopes to bring them in about a month's time. On back - various notes including list of fields

Including rent book 1863-1921, register of smallpox cases 1902-1905, Dewsbury Borough Police records 1885-1968 including register of alehouses

includes Killingbeck and Manston Hospitals registers of smallpox cases 1899-1930 (Some records may be subject to 100 year closure period).

Correspondence - Estate matters. River Dun navigation - Temple Newsam survey (Dickinson). 1734 Lord Arthur ill. 1735 Dering died of Smallpox. Many letters between Lady Isabella and her sons. Seperate bundle 1734-1739

Correspondence - With the Chief medical officer re the construction of Killingbeck Smallpox Hospital and the possible effect on Broomhill Farm, part of the Brown estate, and undeveloped land on the estate

Includes Killingbeck Hospital, register of smallpox cases 1902-1931, (Some records may be subject to 100 year closure period)

Letter - J.I. has left Ratesbon, but mail having difficulty in catching up with him because of the blockade, has to wait for papers and his daughter to recover from the smallpox to continue with his journey home. Refers to his tenants - Mr Ingle, Mr Mills. Wants a new gamekeeper employed.

Knaresborough - includes accounts re smallpox case, death and burial

Comprising minutes, accounts, inventories, correspondence etc relating to Cardigan Hospital, Carr Gate, Wakefield. Some records may be subject to 100 year closure period

Including register of smallpox cases 1962, volume of day and night reports 1962, visitors book 1953, undertakers forms 1985-1988. Some records may be subject to 100 year closure period

Photographs - Bound volume of black and white photographs showing various sanitory conditions and public health hazards within the West Riding of Yorkshire.Includes isolation hospitals, smallpox wards, infectious diseases hospitals, sewerage and refuse problems. The areas covered include Saddleworth, Thurlston, Stocksbridge, Holmfirth, Methley, Horbury, Rawmarsh, Elland, Otley, Castleford, Dewsbury, Skipton, Morley, Todmorden, Luddenden, Wakefield, Featherstone, Tadcaster, Settle, Greetland. Also has additional loose material.