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Joyce Green Hospital: an isolation hospital, it opened in 1902 with 986 beds for the treatment of smallpox victims. From 1907, smallpox cases were dealt with at adjacent Long Reach and the Orchard hospitals while Joyce Green became a fever hospital for the treatment, mainly, of scarlet fever and diphtheria.
From 1928 to 1931, the hospital was again used during a smallpox outbreak, about 13,500 patients being treated. This was a less virulent form of the disease, variola minor.
The hospital was empty until in 1939 it became an Emergency Medical Service (EMS) general hospital. See http://dartfordhospitalhistories.org.uk/joyce-green/joyce-green-introduction/ '
