Being worried about the possibility of an outbreak of Smallpox in the area, the board decided to fund a special hospital in some central position exclusively for the isolation of the disease. By 1903, a permanent Smallpox Hospital, known as Howden Bank or Maiden Law Smallpox Hospital had been erected at Mawsfield, Maiden Law. In this instance foresight was rewarded because in 1903 an outbreak of twenty-two cases of Smallpox occurred and these were removed directly to the new Hospital.