The Hospital for Tropical Diseases was founded on an ex-naval ship in 1821, before moving to the Royal Greenwich Hospital, and thence to the Endsleigh Gardens site in 1920. Several further moves later, and it can now be found within UCL Hospital.
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Hospital for Tropical Diseases
This building housed the London School of Tropical Medicine and the Hospital ...
From the always useful Lost Hospitals of London: "The St Francis Hospital for Infants was founded in a small house in Hampstead {6 Denning Road} in 1903 by Helen Levis, {first} wife of the industri...
All-women unit, affiliated to the TA, formed as the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and active in both nursing and intelligence work during WW1 and WW2. Â The original role was to ride horseback (hence "...
District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1890-1926. Honorary Serving Brother in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
It can trace its origins back to 1553, when King Edward VI re-established St Thomas' hospital, having been closed during the Reformation. In 1721, Thomas Guy funded the building of the hospital whi...
Pioneer of child psychoanalysis.  Born Vienna, the sixth and last child of Sigmund.  Was on holiday in England in 1914 when war was declared and she had to return home.  After nursing her father i...
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