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marg
Feb 5, 2009 - 2:29PM
fever hospital/ bristol

hello

does any one know of where or heard of (fever hospital nover's knapp )bedminster bristol around 1875 .any info would be great

many thanks marg

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John
Jun 20, 2009 - 2:08AM
Re: fever hospital/ bristol

I have never heard of Nover’s Hill being referred to as Nover’s Knapp but assumed hill and knapp were similar words.

I Googled ‘Novers Hill Isolation’ and found this nugget of information:

1892 – Bristol sanitary committee purchased land in novers hill for a 58-bed isolation hospital for smallpox cases. Prior to this, the only hospital for isolation of infectious disease cases consisted of two small buildings each with 12 beds each in St Phillips Marsh.

I also came across the NSI website that is obviously devoted to the area and you may care to contact them yourself.

http://www.northern-slopes-initiative.co.uk/index.htm

Northern Slopes Initiative
C/o Buried Treaure
The Park Local Opportunity Centre
Daventry Road, Knowle
BRISTOL
BS4 1QD
United Kingdom

Tel: 07810 474558

E-mail: enquiries@northern-slopes-initiative.co.uk