The Pest House Riots
Title
The Pest House Riots
Subject
These Photographs show the Pest House after the fire, 1896. The Pest house later became part of Battledown Farm.
Description
In 1896 a plan of the Stroud joint hospital board to house smallpox cases in the old parish pest-house at Oakridge angered local people who rioted and burned down the building!
Pest Houses were hospitals/hostels used for persons afflicted with communicable diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera or smallpox.
Often they were used for forcible quarantine. The plan was subsequently abandoned and instead the board built an isolation hospital at the Wittantree near the Stancombe cross-roads.
For the full story see the Exhibit : The Oakridge Riots of 1896
Pest Houses were hospitals/hostels used for persons afflicted with communicable diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera or smallpox.
Often they were used for forcible quarantine. The plan was subsequently abandoned and instead the board built an isolation hospital at the Wittantree near the Stancombe cross-roads.
For the full story see the Exhibit : The Oakridge Riots of 1896
Source
Oakridge History Group
Date
1896
Files
Collection
Citation
“The Pest House Riots,” Oakridge Archives, accessed April 29, 2024, https://oakridgearchives.omeka.net/items/show/187.