Dr Josiah Oldfield
Lawyer, physician, and writer on health. And creator of hospitals - read on. Born Shrewsbury. At Oxford University he became a vegetarian and a friend of Gandhi. First qualified as a barrister and...
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Old Operating Theatre
It was a conversion of part of the garret of St Thomas's Church in 1822. The odd location is explained by the fact that it abutted the female surgical ward of St Thomas's. The hospital began to mov...
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Percy Lane Oliver
Founder of the first voluntary blood donor service. Born in Fish Street, St Ives, Cornwall. In 1921, he helped found the Camberwell division of the British Red Cross Society, and conceived the idea...
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Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians
It really is spelt "ophth...", amazing. This institute doesn't seem to exist any more and we can't discover which organisation it disappeared into.
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Organ Donation Award
From Organ Donation news item: "Since 2013 the families of organ donors have been able to accept an award for their loved one, collecting it in person on their behalf at a private ceremony or havin...
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Organ donors
From 2013Â Organ Donation news item: "In the last ten years, around 10,000 people have been honoured {with the St John award} and are estimated to have made more than 25,000 organ transplants possi...
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Oriolet Hospital and Convalescent Home
Founded and endowed by Arnold Frank Hills (1857–1927), MD of Thames Ironworks, sportsman (founder of West Ham FC), philanthropist, and promoter of vegetarianism. A centre of treatment for sick veg...
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C. T. Osborn
District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1893-1939. Officer in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
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Sam Osborn, FRCS
District Chief Surgeon in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1887-1907. Knight Grace in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
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Dame Rosalind Paget
Nurse and midwife. Trained at the British Lying-in Hospital. She was the first superintendent, and later inspector general, of the Queen's Jubilee Institute for District Nursing at the London Hospi...
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