Description | Includes note of offer of the isolation hospital for use by the military authorities, which was accepted only for unmanageable lunatic soldiers as wounded and convalescents were already provided for, Sep 1914; proposed changes at the hospital and intention to photograph every patient, Feb 1915; transfer of patients to other asylums, conversion of the asylum into a hospital for sick and wounded soldiers and naming of the institution the 'Wharncliffe War Hospital', Apr 1915; receipt of convoys; small plans of Hawthorne Farm and Asylum Farm; outbreak of swine fever; attachment of Middlewood Hall, Darfield, VAD [Voluntary Aid Detachment] class B hospital and later the Kilton Hill Hospital, Worksop. |