Hospitals Gallery

Westminster Hospital opening April 1939

A great event in hospital history the new Westminister Hospital will be open on 20th April 1939 by His Majesty King accompanied by Her Majesty The Queen. Westminster Hospital was a hospital in London, England, founded in 1719. In 1834 a medical school attached to the hospital was formally founded. In 1939 a newly built hospital and medical school opened in Horseferry Road, Westminster. Date: April 1939

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St Giles Hospital, Camberwell, London

The administrative offices of Camberwell St Giles Hospital, formerly part of the Camberwell workhouse on Havil Street, now St Giles Road, south east London. The offices themselves fronted onto Brunswick Road (now Brunswick Villas). The first workhouse buildings on the site dated from 1818, but from the 1870s its medical facilities greatly expanded. It later became St Giles Hospital

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Florence Nightingale, English nurse and hospital reformer, c1850s

Florence Nightingale, English nurse and hospital reformer, c1850s. Named after the place of her birth in Italy, Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) devoted her life to the sick and suffering. She volunteered for duty in the Crimean War (1854-1856), and whilst at the hospital barracks at Scutari, she drastically reduced the mortality rate by imposing a strict discipline and high standards of sanitation. In 1859, she wrote Notes on Nursing, and in 1861 she founded the St Thomas's School of Nursing in London

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