Placed at the service of the war office during the Great War and was occupied by sick and wounded soldiers of the British Expeditionary Forces from October 1914 until the 31st January 1918. 5406 soldiers were passed through the ward.
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St Barthomews Hospital - East wing
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Bart's - East Building
This inscription records the fact that this wing of the hospital was placed a...
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Dogs killed in medical experiments in 1902
232 dogs died in 1902 as a result of medical experiments. Wikipedia gives: "In 1875 there were around 300 experiments on animals in the UK, a figure that had risen to 19,084 in 1903 when the brown...
2 memorials
1 memorial
Walter Reed
American army surgeon prominent in proving that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes. Born Belroi, Virginia. Died Washington.
1 memorial
Lewisham Hospital
The origins of this hospital go back to a workhouse established in 1612. During WW1 it became the Lewisham Military Hospital, and after further extensions it became the University Hospital Lewisham...
2 memorials
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...
1 memorial
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