Barming Asylum now Oakwood Hospital.

Barming Asylum now Oakwood Hospital, where Almroth Wright carried out his first trial of typhoid vaccine among the inmates, during the outbreak of typhoid fever in Maidstone, Kent in 1897. It was also the scene for the adding of chloride of lime into the reservoir by Sims Woodhead for the first time, to sterilise water mains. This was an imposant coincidence because for many years the reduction in typhoid fever in armies was wrongly considered to be due to vaccine ather than chloride.