In the December 8, 1902 issue of the Elizabeth Daily Journal, there's an article entitled "Newark's Smallpox Hospital to Close." The hospital was scheduled to close within a week to 10 days. " 'Newark has been pretty thoroughly vaccinated,' said Dr E.E. Worl, chief of the Contagious Disease Bureau of the Board of Health, yesterday, 'and we don't expect much smallpox this winter. We may get a case now and then, or several cases, but no more thn ought to be expected in a big and growing city with a cosmopolitan permanent population and a more than ordinary transient population. We will keep the isolation hospital in readiness to be opened at any time on a minute's notice, but the only expense will be the keeping of a man there. This will be necessary for two reasons---we must have someone ready to answer possible ambulance calls, and tramps and other persons who might seek shelter in there must be kept out because of the infectious conditions of the buildings.' "During the run of smallpox in the city of Newark there were 1,284 cases treated in the isolation hospital. The death rate was about 20 being unusually high because the large number of hemorrhage cases." The article does not mention exactly where in Newark the hospital was. I don't know what happened to the buildings. Maybe they were later used for a TB isolation hospital in the 1920s/1930s?? Hope this helps someone! ---Robin