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This is a view of the entrance of Middleton Hospital at Moulmein Road. It began as an isolation camp for patients with infectious diseases (smallpox, cholera and plague) at Balestier Road in 1907. In 1913, it was relocated to Moulmein Road. Over the years, the isolation camp became a hospital for the treatment of infectious diseases. The hospital was renamed "Middleton Hospital" in 1920, after the retirement of Dr. William Robert Colvin Middleton, the first Municipal Health Officer in Singapore (1893-1920). In 1959, Ministry of Health (MOH) took over the hospital. In 1985, it was absorbed into Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) and renamed "Department of Communicable Diseases" (DCD). When TTSH was restructured in 1992, DCD merged with Tuberculosis Control and Epidemiology sections to form Communicable Disease Centre (CDC), which reported directly to MOH. CDC became the national centre for the management of communicable and infectious diseases. In April 1995, CDC came under the administration of TTSH. Middleton Hospital was demolished to make way for a new five-storey National Skin Centre, which started its operations on 1 November 1988. Title devised by Library staff.