Medical dates:

Medical character:

In 1883 a small isolation hospital was opened by the Council.  It had been built north of the railway line, adjacent to the sewage works, on a piece of wasteland known as Mereway.

In 1901 Cross Deep House, an 18th century mansion, was rented by the Council for use by patients convalescing from scarlet fever, who had been discharged from Mereway.

On 10th January 1902, during the smallpox epidemic, Mereway was prepared to receive smallpox patients, while its scarlet fever patients were transferred to Cross Deep House. 

In 1906 work began in Whitton on a new isolation hospital for Twickenham on a 7 acre site off the Nelson Road.  

The Twickenham Isolation Hospital opened in 1909.  The isolation hospital on the Mereway site continued in use as well, at least during WW1 (1914-1918), but Cross Deep House had closed.

In April 1935 control of the Hospital was taken over by the South Middlesex and Richmond Joint Hospital Board, which also assumed control of the Isolation Hospitals at Mogden and Hampton.  Following a reorganisation in September, all acute cases were sent to Mogden Isolation Hospital.  Twickenham Isolation Hospital was then used only for patients with enteric fever, scarlet fever or some rare infection.

The Hospital closed in 1938 when the Mogden Isolation Hospital was substantially extended.

Present status (May 2009)

The Hospital had been demolished by the 1960s and the area redeveloped with new housing.