Chailey Rural District Council: weekly invoices from Sedgebrook Isolation Hospital,...

<p>For records of the East Sussex Western Smallpox Hospital District consisting of minutes, 1902-1908, sealing register, 1902-1938 and general ledgers, 1903-1938 see HC 78/1-5; for minutes of the East Sussex WesternJoint Smallpox Hospital Board, 1939-1948 see HC 79/1; for minutes of the County Council's Smallpox Hospital Accommodation Committee, 1902-1903, see C/C 11/29/1 and for file on the establishment of the district and its operation, 1902-1921 see C/C 74/20; for stores account, 1902-1947 see HMC 1/3; for Medical Officer's book, 1913-1940 see HMC 1/4; for registers of cases, 1904-1947 see DL/D 116/1-2; for file concerning catering at Pouchlands and Sedgebrook, 1953-1964 see HC 75/2; for general files, 1948-1962 see HC 75/17-19; for file concerning Board of Control reports, 1951-1960 see HC 75/28</p>

Deposited 13 Dec 1982 (ACC 2949)

On the petition of local authorities under the Isolation Hospital Acts 1893 and 1901, the County Council established a smallpox hospital district which comprised the Rural districts of Chailey, Cuckfield, East Grinstead, Newhaven, Steyning East and Uckfield, and the Urban Districts of Burgess Hill, Cuckfield, East Grinstead, Haywards Heath, Newhaven, Seaford and Uckfield. The East Sussex Western Smallpox Hospital District Committee was dissolved in 1939 and replaced by the East Sussex WesternJoint Smallpox Hospital Board. In 1903 the County Council bought the hospital, at Plumpton for £5,445 from Cuckfield Rural District Council and it was run by the East Sussex WesternJoint Smallpox Hospital Board. The number of cases treated there was never large and it was closed when the National Health Service was set up in 1948. It was then converted into a hostel for 'high-grade' mental defectives.