Set up in a house at 178 King's Road, this hospital, like many at the time, quickly found its premises too small. It moved into the first hospital to be built dedicated to gynaecological diseases, in Fulham Road (the one with the plaque). This opened in 1883 but again became too small and the hospital moved to another purpose-built site in 1916, in what is now Dovehouse Street. This closed in 1988 and (in 2014) the site is now used by the Royal Brompton Hospital, but "Chelsea Hospital for Women" is still carved in the porch lintel.
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Chelsea Hospital for Women
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Chelsea Hospital for Women
Princess Alexandra was laying the foundation stone for the Chelsea Hospital f...
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British Lying-in Hospital
Initially called the Lying-In Hospital for Married Women. ( 'Lying-in' is an old term for childbirth). By the beginning of the 20th century it was experiencing financial difficulties which led to ...
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Capt. Laurence L. Franks
District Staff Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1903-1950. A/Commander in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Sigmund Freud
Founding father of psychoanalysis. Born Morovia. In 1860 the family settled in Vienna where he studied, began his career and married. In 1875 he visited his half-brothers in Manchester, and again ...
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Dr. Dennis Geffen
O.B.E., M.D., D.P.H., Metropolitan Borough of Saint Pancras, 1844 - 1959. Worked in the polio field.
1 memorial
Sir George Frederic Still, KCVO, MD, LLD, FRCP
George Frederic Still was born on 28 February 1868 in Holloway, Middlesex (now Greater London), the fourth of the eight children of George Still (1834-1885) and Eliza Still née Andrew (1834-1914). ...
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